- Removed the cfgif block, too confusing. There is a good lesson here. Probably the n'th time I that I have been overzealous about reuse. When you end up adding a parameter to a block that duplicates the logic 2X it's always better to create two separate blocks...
- Changed the register access interface to packet format
- Change the priority on the etx_arbiter to pick read responses first
- Removed redundant signals
- Took away the read resonse bypass on remap in tx for now..
- Removed defparams (convention)
- Unified wait signal on tx
- Fixed cfg wait
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- Bypass path was ugly! Always try to go through the same logic path as much as possible.
- Note: when MMU is enabled, you need to put in entry for read return (ie 810)
- Gating mailbox_not empty with irq_en. bit [28] of RXCFG
- Changing elink output interrupt to "or" of not_empty and full
- Adding mailbox status register (mostly for debug)
- Moving register addresses to make space for mailbox status register
- Fixing wrappers for DV
- Updating README docs with new register map
- Removing mailbox from RX status reg. Doesn't belong there, should be coupled with mailbox for modularity.
- Making all resets async since we cannot guarantee that we have a clock coming in from RX. This is needed due to the way we use a PLL for alignment. If we would have used a free running local clock this would have been different, but this would have required a FIFO for synchronization betwen the rx and rxdiv4 clock.
- Moving the clock block into the RX for modularity
- Making a specil rx soft reset (driven from sys_clk domain)
- Still there is a POR_reset so the link should wake up ok
- This is DEFINITELY the way to do things, sweep the delays and find the right value. No f'ing way to get these stupid FPGAs to work otherwise with the ridiculuosly over margined PVT nubmers they are running through the STAs. I understand they want to make the design bullet proof, but as a result designers are wasting countless hours overoptimzinng designs and being clever. So much performance is left on the table for expert users.
- Lesson: I/O design should be "self syncrhonizing". Only contraints in the design should be create_clk
- Made RX clock async, too tricky to guarantee that there clock is there. No way to do this if the clock sources are actually independent for RX/TX!
