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David32
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1 year ago
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Arria 10 HPS EMIF DDR4 failing calibration

Hi, We are using Arria 10 SOC on a custom board. There is a single interface to DDR4 (component, 2 devices, each 16 bits). When doing normal EMIF the calibration succeeds and I can access memory t...
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    David32
    1 year ago

    Hi Sho,

    I am sorry but I forgot to mark this thread as solved.

    We found it necessary to mark (within HPS configuration in QSYS) that FPGA boots from SD card.

    Thanks

    David

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David32
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1 year ago

Hi Sho,

Yes that is correct.

Two things are working when using a non-HPS EMIF controller:

1. EMIF toolkit. I manage to create eye diagrams, do re-calibration, etc. Everything seems OK (except for running TG - which I think is more a compatibility issue within Intel since it seems that TG is not supported with Arria 10)

2. From within System Console via JTAG master I can read/write the DDR4 successfully.

In a different project I use now instantiate a HPS EMIF controller, along with HPS etc.

Here the boot software always reads from the CALSTAT register that calibration is failing.

David