- Using the BUFIO makes another clock domain....FPGAs apparently hate clock domain crossings, avoid them at all cost.
- Now moving back to having on high speed clock domain for logic and DDR blocks, take care of IO alignment in software for TX and RX
- Also, fixed the io_wait path with logic...not sure what I was thinking there. Logic was trivial. The way it was,the io path was going straight into the FIFO as a wait.
- Using new packet interface
- Adding active signal, indicating that link is ready. This way you don't need to guess when the link is ready (no magic constants)
- Removed register on por reset input to get rid of x on startup.
- holding rx in reset state until tx is done
- removing reset from all pipeline registers
- removing reset from oddr/iddr
- the idea is to keep things quiet not to block in lots of places. The only real block needed is in the FIFO to keep "noise" from propagating past the link. The link should be kept in a safe reset state until the rx fram is stable and the clock is running so that the pipe can be cleaned out.
-Removing the wait signal from the pipeline
-Assumption is that the prog_full is used on fifo, allowing two entries
to be captured in fifo.
-May revisit this at some time...
-In the default mode we now have 7 input clocks to basic elink
-This is too many, need to simplify, not reasonable!
-But with all the knobs on the MMCM, performance will be great...
-WIP on bursting...
-Separate waits for rd/wr wait
-Adding wait to protocol block as well
-io_wait always goes through
-using active frame signal to select/clear data for output
-pin driven testmode driven..b/c fpga designers often don't like software
-and because it's really convenient, press a push button and see a pattern appear
-removed protocol description, goes in README.md, there should only be one source for documentation
-shortened signal names for ecfg
-changed to "clk" input now that everything is single clock
-added register read/write properly
-removed redundant wrapper layers in maxi/saxi
-changed over to "emesh" interface from packet 103 bit data
-cleaned up maxi
-cleaned up saxi
-removed redundant signals in elink interface (user,lock,..)
-added wrapper to fifo (to carry emesh interface through)
Now comes the fun part of testing
