DMA Controller with TileLink IIP

Overview

Key Features

• Supports 1-16 channel DMA Transmit and DMA Receive Engine
• Compliant with TileLink specification v1.7.1
• Supports access for Ring and Chained Descriptor Structures
• Configurable Transmit and Receive Engine based on Host Memory Data Width
• Configurable support by DMA Transmit and Receive Engine for both of the endianness of the host memory (Little / Big Endian)
• Supports configurable DMA Transmit and DMA Receive FIFO based on Host Memory Data width
• Supports hardware DMA Control registers that can be written and read by CPU
• Round Robin algorithm for arbitration between DMA Transmit and Receive Engine to access SOC Master Bus
• SOC Master bus can be AXI/AHB/APB/OCP/Tilelink/Wishbone
• Supports Tilelink Slave bus
• Uses SOC Slave Interface to get Receive and Transmit descriptors and transfer the data to/from the system memory from/to FIFO inside the DMA controller
• User logic to map data fetched from Host to IP core or from IP core to host
• Supports following DMA transfers
• Memory to Memory
• Memory to Peripheral
• Peripheral to Memory
• Peripheral to Peripheral
• Supports Sideband DMA request and Grant based triggering of transfers as on option for peripherals
• Supports Scatter Gathers list
• Supports 8/16/32/64/128/256 bit wide data transfers
• Supports QoS per channel if SOC master interface supports Qos.
• Supports programmable burst capability per SOC master
• Supports both single data and burst data transfers, with burst size based on the burst length field in the DMA control registers
• DMA supports full duplex operation, processing read and write transfers at the same time
• Supports Link list based processor for autonomous operation
• Interface widths can be controller for each SOC master interface
• Supports access for Ring and Chained Descriptor Structures
• Configurable Transmit and Receive Engine based on Host Memory Data Width
• Configurable support by DMA Transmit and Receive Engine for both of the endianness of the host memory (Little / Big Endian)
• Supports configurable DMA Transmit and DMA Receive FIFO based on Host Memory Data width
• Supports hardware DMA Control registers that can be written and read by CPU
• Supports different algorithms for selecting which channel to process and how long to process.
• Generate full 32-bit addresses on the SOC master interface
• Supports per Channel Interrupt output
• Supports up to 64 MB transfer per Buffer Descriptor (BD)
• Supports both single data and burst data transfers, with burst size based on the burst length field in the DMA control registers
• DMA supports full duplex operation, processing read and write transfers at the same time
• Interrupts CPU on completion of a DMA transfer or an error
• Fully synthesizable
• Static synchronous design

Benefits

• Single Site license option is provided to companies designing in a single site
• Multi Sites license option is provided to companies designing in multiple sites
• Single Design license allows implementation of the IP Core in a single FPGA bitstream and ASIC
• Unlimited Designs, license allows implementation of the IP Core in unlimited number of FPGA bitstreams and ASIC designs

Block Diagram

Deliverables

• The DMA Controller with TileLink interface is available in Source and netlist products
• The Source product is delivered in verilog. If needed VHDL, SystemC code can also be provided
• Easy to use Verilog Test Environment with Verilog Testcases
• Lint, CDC, Synthesis, Simulation Scripts with waiver files
• IP-XACT RDL generated address map
• Firmware code and Linux driver package
• Documentation contains User's Guide and Release notes

Technical Specifications