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GENERAL PURPOSE USER I/O MODULE

(Last Modified: 04 November 2010 06:08:32 PM )



User-level Description

There are two types of General Purpose User I/O on the DE248. The first permits the arbitrary assignment of input or output of thirty-two pins and allows the user to read from or write to up to eight of these pins with a single command. The other type is a bank of fourteen output only pins configured so that user may set or clear each output with a command that is independent of the state of the other pins.

Banked I/O Signals

There is no actual Verilog module for this block. This code is implemented as a direct mapping between the HOST/FPGA Register Space and the Port Pins.

There are presently 32 pins on Port C that are connected to bidirectional I/O buffers. The direction control lines of those buffers are controlled by four of the HOST registers. Another four HOST registers are used to write data to those buffers and four FPGA buffers are used to read the output of those buffers.

The OE register is a bitmask wherein any bit that is '1' configures that port for output. Writing to ports configured as input has no effect. Reading from ports configured as outputs will return the actual value on the port pin.

I/O WRITE READ OE b7 b6 b5 b4 b3 b2 b1 b0
IO[7:0] 0x20 0xA0 0x28 C32 C16 C37 C13 C24 C08 C21 C5
IO[15:8] 0x21 0xA1 0x29 C34 C18 C39 C15 C26 C10 C23 C7
IO[23:16] 0x22 0xA2 0x2A C36 C20 C04 C17 C28 C12 C25 C9
I/O[31:24] 0x23 0xA3 0x2B C38 C22 C06 C19 C30 C14 C35 C11

The port to signal mapping is intended to place nearby pins in different nibbles of different registers, however it also reflects a need to map around pins that were already in use for the SPI interface.

Example: BFE297

The BFE297 test board has the following GPIO signals:

Signal Direction Port Pin Reg Mask Bit
\Prst Write C21 0x20 0x02 b1
Ptg Write C23 0x21 0x02 b1
Pclk Write C25 0x22 0x02 b1
Tdo Read C17 0xA2 0x10 b4
Vtest1 Write C15 0x21 0x10 b4
Vtest2 Write C13 0x20 0x10 b4

To configure the five output signals for output, perform the following:

#> W2812 ! Configure C13, C21 for output

#> W2912 ! Configure C15, C23 for output

#> W2A02 ! Configure C25 for output

At this point, the following are the relevant register writes for controlling the outputs:

#> W2000 ! Vtest2=LO \Prst=LO

#> W2002 ! Vtest2=LO \Prst=HI

#> W2010 ! Vtest2=HI \Prst=LO

#> W2012 ! Vtest2=HI \Prst=HI

#> W2100 ! Vtest1=LO Ptg=LO

#> W2102 ! Vtest1=LO Ptg=HI

#> W2110 ! Vtest1=HI Ptg=LO

#> W2112 ! Vtest1=HI Ptg=HI

#> W2200 ! Pclk=LO

#> W2202 ! Pclk=HI

To read the Tdo signal, perform the following register read:

#> RA2   ! Tdo is HI iff upper nibble is odd


Independent I/O Signals

 

While the banked I/O signals make it possible to read from or write to many signals with comparably few commands, it also tends to make it difficult to determine which commands should be sent to change a particular signal without affecting other signals. For this reason, a bank of signals that permit the User to set and clear individual signals with commands that are independent of the state of other signals has been implemented.

 

This module has fourteen signals and is controlled by a single HOST register (presently 0x17). The lower nibble is used to select outputs that are to be set and the upper nibble is used to select outputs that are to be cleared. If a nibble is set to zero, then no action is taken on any of the outputs while if a nibble is set to all ones then action is taken on all of the signals. For instance, the following commands perform the actions indicated in the comments.

#> W1700 ! Take no action of any kind.

#> W1706 ! Set output #6

#> W170D ! Set output #D (13)

#> W1760 ! Clr output #6

#> W17D3 ! Clr output #D (13) and set output #3

#> W170F ! Set all 14 outputs

#> W17F0 ! Clr all 14 outputs

#> W17FF ! Will clear all outputs

#> W174F ! Will set all outputs except #4

If the command tells the module to both set and clear a given bit, the clear will take precedence in a static sense. Since the changes are registered, the bits that are told to set should not glitch, but it is still recommended not to issue contradictory commands.