This core allows you to embed a full-speed (12Mbps) USB 2.0 device core into your FPGA design. ## Clocks The core requires a reasonably precise 48MHz clock. You'd better derive it from a crystal oscillator. ## Physical interface Since USB uses a bit of a weird signaling on its half-duplex (almost-)differential line, you'll, need to do a little bit of work to connect it to the core. The following five signals connect to D+ and D- USB signals. * `input rx_j` -- the differential value on D+/D- lines * `input rx_se0` -- single-ended zero detected: should be set when both D+ and D- lines are zero * `output tx_se0` -- transmit zeros on both USB lines; has priority over `tx_j` * `output tx_j` -- transmit `tx_j` to D+ and `~tx_j` to D- * `output tx_en` -- enable the trasmitter If your FPGA doesn't have a differential receiver, then you can simply use two pins and connect them as follows. However, without a differential receiver, you will be outside of the USB specs. Make sure the inputs are synchronized to the USB clock. inout usb_dp; inout usb_dn; // ... wire usb_tx_se0, usb_tx_j, usb_tx_en; usb usb0( .rx_j(usb_dp), .rx_se0(!usb_dp && !usb_dn), .tx_se0(usb_tx_se0), .tx_j(usb_tx_j), .tx_en(usb_tx_en)); assign usb_dp = usb_tx_en? (usb_tx_se0? 1'b0: usb_tx_j): 1'bz; assign usb_dn = usb_tx_en? (usb_tx_se0? 1'b0: !usb_tx_j): 1'bz; However, if you have a differential receiver, you'd better use it. Configuring this is FPGA-specific. For Xilinx Spartan 6 family, I use four physical pins as follows. // These pins are configured as differential inputs. Unfortunately, // you can't use single-ended receivers nor transmitters on these pins. input usb_sp; input usb_sn; // These pins are single-ended inouts. inout usb_dp; inout usb_dn' // ... IBUFDS usb_j_buf(.I(usb_sp), .IB(usb_sn), .O(usb_rx_j_presync)); synch usb_j_synch(clk_48, usb_rx_j_presync, usb_rx_j); synch usb_se0_synch(clk_48, !usb_dp && !usb_dn, usb_rx_se0); wire usb_tx_se0, usb_tx_j, usb_tx_en; usb usb0( .rx_j(usb_rx_j), .rx_se0(usb_rx_se0), .tx_se0(usb_tx_se0), .tx_j(usb_tx_j), .tx_en(usb_tx_en)); assign usb_dp = usb_tx_en? (usb_tx_se0? 1'b0: usb_tx_j): 1'bz; assign usb_dn = usb_tx_en? (usb_tx_se0? 1'b0: !usb_tx_j): 1'bz; Note the synchronization after the receiver. Whichever pins you transmit on need to have resistors after them. The exact values will depend on the internal resistance of the pins; usually something around 27 ohms will be ok. You also need to pull the D+ line up to 3.3V via a 1.5k resistor. You can pull it directly, or via a pin on your FPGA, if you want to dynamically attach/detach to the bus. Make sure to never pull the line down, the only valid outputs of the pullup pin are `1'b1` and `1'bz`.