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Ipipsu

Ipipsu

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Last updated: May 30, 2025 by Goud, Srinivas

This page gives an overview of ipipsu driver.

Table of Contents

Introduction


This page gives an overview of ipipsu driver which is available as part of the Xilinx Vivado and SDK distribution.
The heterogeneous multiprocessor system uses the inter-processor interrupt (IPI) structure
to exchange short interrupt-driven messages between processors in the system. The IPI
architecture allows the passing of messages across the system without the complications of
autonomous read-write transactions and polling inefficiency.


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 Name

Path in Vitis

Path in Github

Driver Name

Path in Vitis

Path in Github

ipipsu

<Vitis Install Directory>/data/embedded/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/ipipsu

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/ipipsu



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/ipipsu



The driver source code is organized into different folders.  The table below shows the ipipsu driver source organization. 



Directory

Description

Directory

Description

doc

Provides the API and data structure details

data

Driver .tcl, .mdd and .yaml file

examples

Example applications that show how to use the driver features

src

Driver source files, make and cmakelists file



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 Chapter 56: Inter-Processor Interrupts in Versal TRM (Versal platform) and Chapter 13: IPI Interrupts and Message Buffers in ZynqMP TRM

Note: There are differences in the peripheral definitions and canonical definitions for the IPI peripheral between the XSCT/classic flow and the SDT flow.

  • XSCT/Classic Flow: Defines bitmask and buffer index directly within peripheral definitions.

  • SDT Flow: Uses a more detailed structure, including channel-specific bitmask and buffer index definitions.

IPI Features

The IPIPSU block, provides the following features.

  • Supports processor communications including both an IPI interrupt structure and memory buffers to
    exchange short private 32B messages between eight IPI agents.

  • Supports both blocking and nonblocking calls.


CRC :

We support CRC16 for IPI messages. The last word in IPI buffer is reserved for adding CRC for the IPI data. When ENABLE_IPI_CRC macro is defined,

IPI driver will calculate and add CRC to the last word while sending and will validate CRC while receiving IPI.

If CRC mismatch occurs, error response is returned.



Missing features, Known Issues and Limitations

  • The driver doesn't support ECC feature.



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/ipipsu/examples

Test Name

Example Source

Description

Test Name

Example Source

Description

IPIPSU example

xipipsu_self_test_example.c



This example sends a message to itself and confirms the message.



Example Application Usage

IPIPSU example

This example sends a message to itself and receives it.

Expected Output



Hello IPI! [Build: Jul 2 2021 07:11:56] Interrupt ID: 67 Message Content: W0: 0x5851F42D W1: 0x40B18CCF W2: 0x4BB5F646 W3: 0x47033129 W4: 0x30705B04 W5: 0x20FD5DB4 W6: 0x1A8B7F78 W7: 0x502959D8 Triggering IPI and Waiting for Response... ---->Enter Interrupt Handler Message Received: W0: 0x5851F42D W1: 0x40B18CCF W2: 0x4BB5F646 W3: 0x47033129 W4: 0x30705B04 W5: 0x20FD5DB4 W6: 0x1A8B7F78 W7: 0x502959D8 Sent back Inverted Message. <----Exit Interrupt Handler Received response. Message : Response W0 -> 0x5851F42D : 0xA7AE0BD2 W1 -> 0x40B18CCF : 0xBF4E7330 W2 -> 0x4BB5F646 : 0xB44A09B9 W3 -> 0x47033129 : 0xB8FCCED6 W4 -> 0x30705B04 : 0xCF8FA4FB W5 -> 0x20FD5DB4 : 0xDF02A24B W6 -> 0x1A8B7F78 : 0xE5748087 W7 -> 0x502959D8 : 0xAFD6A627 Successfully ran Ipipsu selftest Example





Changelog

2025.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xlnx_rel_v2025.1/doc/ChangeLog#L391

2024.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xlnx_rel_v2024.2/doc/ChangeLog#L595

2024.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2024.1/doc/ChangeLog#L461

2023.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2023.2/doc/ChangeLog#L574

2023.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2023.1/doc/ChangeLog#L98





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