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12 years ago

PCIe Cyclone V CRA Register

Hallo together,

actually i'm trying to implement a system with the hard PCIe core of the Cyclone 5 Altera development board (GX).

What do I use

- Quartus 13 on a windows 64 bit computer

- PCIe development board from Altera

- Embedded pc from Kontron with Linux

- Avalon-MM Cyclone V Hard IP for PCI Express

What is working:

- Linux detects the different bars and loads the correct driver.

- Access through different PCIe bars to internal and external ram (ddr3).

What is NOT working:

- Can't enable the Interrupt because I can't read and write the CRA register area

How do I test:

- The CRA register are mapped through a slave in the Avalon address space (0x0 - 0x3FFF)

- Avalon Master of BAR 2 is connected to this slave an to an additional SRAM slave

- I can read and write to the slave - verified also with the signal tap

- I can realize a read and write to the CRA slave

- signal tap to the port of the slave

- signal names like dut_cra_translator/av_address etc.

- When the BAR2 master write and read I can see the correct values (adr, data, ... )

- I can see the the wait_request is deactivated after on clock or so.

- But I always read zero (and I do not write zero :)).

Does anyone know what's wrong?

best regards

Arnd

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    Hi Arnd,

    we are having the same problem. Would you please tell us if you found the reason and how to solve the problem.

    Thanks in advance.
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    Altera_Forum
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    11 years ago

    Hi,

    I am having the same problem. Has anyone found a solution to this, or a reason why the CRA registers appear to be all set to zero?

    I am also using the Altera CycloneV GX dev board with the 5CGXFC7D6F31C6NES and Quartus 13.1.

    I set values to the ID registers (Vendor ID, Device Id, etc..) in the QSys IP set-up GUI for the "Avalon-MM Cyclone V Hard IP for PCI Express" (altera_pcie_cv_hip_avmm). I expected to see these same values when accessing the CRA register from the NIOS2 processor. All I see is zeros. I am setting up the Hard IP as a Root Port.

    I'm still learning about PCIe, so my assumption that the CRA port should show something useful may be wrong. I would be greatful is somebody could at least confirm what I should be seeing through the CRA port.

    Thanks.
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    11 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    Hi,

    I am having the same problem. Has anyone found a solution to this, or a reason why the CRA registers appear to be all set to zero?

    I am also using the Altera CycloneV GX dev board with the 5CGXFC7D6F31C6NES and Quartus 13.1.

    I set values to the ID registers (Vendor ID, Device Id, etc..) in the QSys IP set-up GUI for the "Avalon-MM Cyclone V Hard IP for PCI Express" (altera_pcie_cv_hip_avmm). I expected to see these same values when accessing the CRA register from the NIOS2 processor. All I see is zeros. I am setting up the Hard IP as a Root Port.

    I'm still learning about PCIe, so my assumption that the CRA port should show something useful may be wrong. I would be greatful is somebody could at least confirm what I should be seeing through the CRA port.

    Thanks.

    --- Quote End ---

    Hi,

    Have you tried Quartus 13.0? This may work.

    Or you can connect a BAR directly to CRA port and control from CPU/PC.

    Good luck.
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    11 years ago

    Hello, I'm having the same problem. All I read from CRA (register data) is zero ... Thank you in advance for any hint.

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    Altera_Forum
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    11 years ago

    Hi,

    Could you show me a example about how to operate with CRA register from the NIOS2 processor?.

    Thanks