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15 years ago

Question about Monitor

Hello, is it possible to synthesize the "monitors" on the altera fpgas'. There are Monitor IPs such as Avalon MM Monitor. Can I synthesize such "Monitors"?
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15 years ago

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BFM's are supposed to used only for testing of individual components right? why are they synthesizable?

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They're not. Look at the source code, synthesis gets turned off (the BFM code gets skipped).

For a BFM Avalon-MM master named bfm_master, during synthesis you will get warnings that bfm_master nets are unconnected. Altera should have used additional synthesis directives to connect the unused interface control signals to ground, eg., by using HDL comments that get interpreted during synthesis.

However, you can ignore the warnings.

Cheers,

Dave