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11 years ago

Avalon BFM - Test Program

Hi, I just succesfully generated my first Avalon BFM testbench with Qsys 14. I have a component that consist of my avalon entity and an additional library file that contains some system wide co...
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11 years ago

Hi Maik,

I've posted a couple of examples of how to use the Avalon-MM BFM. I always create a testbench separate from the one generated by Altera.

Take a read of this tutorial ...

http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/using_the_usb-blaster_as_an_sopc/qsys_avalon-mm_master_tutorial

and look at its forum thread:

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34787

Things have changed slightly with 14.0, so I wrote an example in this thread; download qsys_vip.zip and follow the readme.txt (page 3 post# 25)

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32952&page=3

There's SystemVerilog tasks in the testbench for performing Avalon-MM read/write single/burst, which is pretty much all you need.

Cheers,

Dave