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AXI CDMA Standalone Driver

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

AXI CDMA Standalone Driver

Introduction

This page gives an overview of

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the bare-metal driver support for the Xilinx® LogiCORE™ IP AXI Central Direct Memory Access (CDMA) soft IP.   


Table of Contents

Table of Contents
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Introduction


The AXI CMDA core is a soft Xilinx

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IP

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core for use with the Xilinx Vivado® Design Suite. The AXI CDMA provides high-bandwidth Direct Memory Access (DMA) between a memory-mapped source address and a memory-mapped destination address using the AXI4 protocol. An optional Scatter Gather (SG) feature can be used to offload control and sequencing tasks from the system CPU. Initialization, status, and control registers are accessed through an AXI4-Lite slave interfaceFor more information, please refer to the AXI CDMA product page which includes links to the official documentation and resource utilization. 

How to enable

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Driver Sources

The source code for the driver is included with the Vitis Unified Software Platform installation, as well as being available in the Xilinx Github repository. 


Driver NamePath in VitisPath in Github
axicdma<Vitis Install Directory>/data/embedded/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/axicdma_<version>https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/axicdma

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Info

Note: To view the sources for a particular release, use the rel-version tag in github.  For example, for the 2020.1 release, the proper version of the code is: https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/xilinx-v2020.1/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/axicdma


The driver source code is organized into different folders.

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  The table below shows the axicdma driver source organization

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Directory

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Description

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doc

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Provides the API and data structure details

data
- data -
Driver .tcl, .mdd file and
MDD file
.yaml files

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examplesExample applications that show how to use the driver

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Features Supported

Controller Features

  • AXI4 interface for data transfer
  • Independent AXI4-Lite slave interface for register access
  • Independent AXI4 Master interface for
  • Optional Scatter/Gather(SG) function
  • Optional Data Realignment Engine
  • Register Direct Mode
  • Optional Scatter-Gather DMA support
  • Optional Store and Forward support
  • Parameterized Read and Write Address Pipeline depths
  • Fixed-address and incrementing-address burst support
  • Support for up to 64-bit addressing

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features
srcDriver source files

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, make and cmake files

Note: AMD Xilinx embeddedsw build flow is changed from 2023.2 release to adapt to the new system device tree based flow. For further information, refer to the wiki page Porting embeddedsw components to system device tree (SDT) based flow - Xilinx Wiki - Confluence (atlassian.net).

The .yaml(in data folder) and CMakeLists.txt(in src folder) files are needed for the System Device Tree based flow. The Driver .tcl and .mdd files are for the older build flow which will be deprecated in the future.

Driver Implementation

For a full list of features supported by this IP, please refer to the AXI CDMA product page.  


Features

The AXI CDMA Standalone driver supports the

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following features: 
  • Supports Simple DMA mode
  • Supports Scatter/Gather Direct Memory Access (DMA)
  • Supports 64-bit Addressing
  • Supports Optional Data Re-Alignment Feature
  • Supports Register Direct mode

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Test cases

  • Refer below pah for testing different examples for each feature of the IP.

Known Issues and Limitations

  • All IP features are supported

Example Design Architecture 

For simple/SG mode the examples assumes AXI CDMA Data AXI4 Read/Write MasterIP M_AXI/M_AXI_SG interface are connected to DDR.


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Example Applications

Refer to the driver examples directory for various example applications that exercise the different features of the driver. Each application is linked in the table below. The following sections describe the usage and expected output of the various applications.  These example applications can be imported into the Vitis IDE from the Board Support Package  settings tab. 

Links to Examples

Examples Path: https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/axicdma/examples


Test NameExample SourceDescription
Scatter Gather DMA with Interruptsxaxicdma_example_sg_intr.c

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This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in interrupt mode when the core is configured in SG Mode.
Scatter Gather DMA with Pollingxaxicdma_example_sg_poll.c

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 This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in the polled mode when the core is configured in SG Mode.
Simple DMA with Interruptxaxicdma_example_simple_intr.c

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 This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in interrupt mode when the core is configured in simple DMA Mode.
Simple DMA with Pollingxaxicdma_example_simple_poll.c

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  This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in the polled mode when the core is configured in simple DMA Mode.
Hybrid(SG+ simple) with Interruptsxaxicdma_example_hybrid_intr.c

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This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in interrupt mode when the core is configured in hybrid(SG + simple) transfer Mode.
Hybrid(SG+ simple) with Pollingxaxicdma_example_hybrid_poll.c

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This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in the polled mode when the core is configured in hybrid(SG + simple) transfer Mode.


Example Application Usage

Scatter Gather with Interrupts

This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in interrupt mode when the core is configured in SG Mode.

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Known issues and Limitations

  • All IP features are supported

Change Log

2019.2

  • Fix cache maintenance operation for data buffers in examples.
  • Enable debug prints in examples.

Commit Id's

67fe31f   axicdma: examples: Fix cache maintenance operation for data buffers
320aa07 axicdma: examples: Add errors prints for failing scenarios

2019.1

  • None

2018.3

  • Fix typos in peripheral app tcl.
  • Reset error and done states before starting DMA.
  • Fix compilation error in examples DEBUG mode.
  • Fix gcc and cppcheck warnings.

Commit Id's

20df53d Fix typos in peripheral app generation tcl
394e44f examples: Reset error and done states before starting DMA
5e68393 examples: Fix compilation error in DEBUG mode
da70e17 Fix gcc warning in peripheral test application
f80f1ad Fix cppcheck warning
cd5bc3d Include missing initializers for 'XAxiCdma_Config' fields

2018.2

  • None

2018.1

  • Extend AXI CDMA examples to support data buffers above 4GB

Commit Id's
9fab83a axicdma: Extend AXI CDMA examples to support data buffers above 4GB
2017.4

  • None

2017.3

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Expected Output

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--- Entering main() ---
Successfully ran XAxiCdma_SgIntr Example
--- Exiting main() ---

Scatter Gather with Polling

This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in the polled mode when the core is configured in SG Mode.

Expected Output

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--- Entering main() ---
Successfully ran XAxiCdma_SgPoll Example
--- Exiting main() ---

Simple DMA with Interrupts

This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in interrupt mode when the core is configured in simple DMA Mode.

Expected Output

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--- Entering main() ---
Successfully ran XAxiCdma_SimpleIntr Example
--- Exiting main() ---

Simple DMA with Polling

This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in the polled mode when the core is configured in simple DMA Mode.

Expected Output

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--- Entering main() ---
Successfully ran AxiCdma_SimplePoll Example
--- Exiting main() ---

Hybrid(SG+ simple) with Interrupts

This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in interrupt mode when the core is configured in hybrid(SG + simple) transfer Mode.

Expected Output

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--- Entering main() ---
First simple transfer successful
Scatter gather transfer successful
Second simple transfer successful
Successfully ran Axicdma Hybrid interrupt Example
--- Exiting main() 


Hybrid(SG+ simple) with Polling

This example demonstrates how to transfer packets in the polled mode when the core is configured in hybrid(SG + simple) transfer Mode.

Expected Output

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--- Entering main() ---
First simple transfer successful
Scatter gather transfer successful
Second simple transfer successful
Successfully ran Axicdma Hybrid polled Example
--- Exiting main() 


Change Log

2023.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xlnx_rel_v2023.2/doc/ChangeLog#L540

2023.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2023.1/doc/ChangeLog#L50

2022.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2022.2/doc/ChangeLog#L72

2022.1

None

2021.2

None

2021.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xlnx_rel_v2021.1/doc/ChangeLog#L396


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