- The top level directory was not scaling, too imposing
- Friendlier to download a repo and see a finite number of top level dirs
- We are just getting started...
- 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.
- reset was broken!
- need to account for wait
- merging read/write wait for simplicity, otherwise you would need to reset the packets to figure out if it's a read or write transaction...and I don't want to reset every packet throughout the pipe.
- 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.
- 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!
-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...
-When a read response is detected, there should be no spurious transactions to the RD/WR request fifos.
-Move the "filter" backt to the erx_protocol block
-Removed the remap bypass signal (was hacky)
-Passes simulations again..
