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9 years agoCyclone V, HPS SPI routing to FPGA pins
Hello everyone,
I'm using the DE0-Nano Soc Board and tried to route the signals of the HPS SPI Master Peripheral to FPGA Pins. In Qsys i activated the SPI Master and set the pins to FPGA. In top_level entity they are connected to fpga pins. The problem is, that the Fitter isn't able to route the sclk signal to the fpga pin i have assigned. When i don't assign a pin, the fitter can place it to some pin locations. With assigned pins i get the following error messages.
Error (175020): The Fitter cannot place logic auto-promoted clock driver that is part of Arria V/Cyclone V Hard Processor System soc_system_hps_0 in region (28, 8) to (68, 61), to which it is constrained, because there are no valid locations in the region for logic of this type.
Info (14596): Information about the failing component(s):
Info (175028): The auto-promoted clock driver name(s): soc_system:qsys_system|soc_system_hps_0:hps_0|soc_system_hps_0_fpga_interfaces:fpga_interfaces|spim0_sclk_out~CLKENA0
Error (16234): No legal location could be found out of 30 considered location(s). Reasons why each location could not be used are summarized below:
Error (15123): The following auto-promoted clock driver locations cannot route to all the required pins
Info (175027): Destination: pin fpga_spi0_sclk
Info (175015): The I/O pad fpga_spi0_sclk is constrained to the location PIN_AE12 due to: User Location Constraints (PIN_AE12)
Info (14709): The constrained I/O pad is contained within this pin
Info (175029): 11 locations affected
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R0
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R2
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R4
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R6
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R8
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R70
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R72
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R74
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R76
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R78
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R80
Info (175013): The auto-promoted clock driver is constrained to the region (28, 8) to (68, 61) due to related logic
Info (175015): The HPS_INTERFACE_PERIPHERAL_SPI_MASTER soc_system:qsys_system|soc_system_hps_0:hps_0|soc_system_hps_0_fpga_interfaces:fpga_interfaces|peripheral_spim0 is constrained to the location HPSINTERFACEPERIPHERALSPIMASTER_X32_Y44_N111 due to: User Location Constraints (HPSINTERFACEPERIPHERALSPIMASTER_X32_Y44_N111)
Info (14709): The constrained HPS_INTERFACE_PERIPHERAL_SPI_MASTER drives this auto-promoted clock driver
Error (175006): Could not find path between source HPS_INTERFACE_PERIPHERAL_SPI_MASTER and the auto-promoted clock driver
Info (175026): Source: HPS_INTERFACE_PERIPHERAL_SPI_MASTER soc_system:qsys_system|soc_system_hps_0:hps_0|soc_system_hps_0_fpga_interfaces:fpga_interfaces|peripheral_spim0
Info (175015): The HPS_INTERFACE_PERIPHERAL_SPI_MASTER soc_system:qsys_system|soc_system_hps_0:hps_0|soc_system_hps_0_fpga_interfaces:fpga_interfaces|peripheral_spim0 is constrained to the location HPSINTERFACEPERIPHERALSPIMASTER_X32_Y44_N111 due to: User Location Constraints (HPSINTERFACEPERIPHERALSPIMASTER_X32_Y44_N111)
Info (175021): The HPS_INTERFACE_PERIPHERAL_SPI_MASTER was placed in location HPSINTERFACEPERIPHERALSPIMASTER_X32_Y44_N111
Error (175022): The auto-promoted clock driver could not be placed in any location to satisfy its connectivity requirements
Info (175029): 19 locations affected
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_G12
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_G13
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_G14
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_G15
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R1
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R3
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R5
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R7
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_R9
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_G8
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_G9
Info (175029): CLKCTRL_G10
Info (175029): and 7 more locations not displayed
I think that there are some restrictions which pins the peripherals of the hps can access in the fpga region, but i wasn't able to find something about it in the device handbook. It's also possible that i haven't the right settings in my project, so have sombody else succesfully placed the spi signals in the fpga region and can give me some tips? Best regards Bjoern