Qspipsu Standalone driver

This page gives an overview of Qspipsu Standalone driver.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The quad SPI (QSPI) controller can access one or two flash devices using several different methods.
The controller is located with the other flash memory controllers in the PMC.
The I/O interface is routed to the PMC MIO pin bank 0 and can drive one or two devices. QSPI is commonly used as a boot device.
The controller provides multiple ways to read and write flash memory:
• SPI accesses
• Programmed I/O (PIO) protocol
• DMA indirect read using AXI master interface

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

qspipsu

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

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


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/qspipsu


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

Directory
Description

doc

Provides the API and data structure details

data

Driver .tcl , .mdd and .yaml files

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 71: Quad SPI Controller in Versal TRM

Features

  1. DMA access (aligned address only)
  2. IO access
  3. Control of two chip selects/bus
  4. Configurable clock
  5. Configurable bus width
  6. Byte Mirror/Stripe operations
  7. Interrupts – will be chosen and enabled internally
  8. SPI NAND flash devices

Known Issues and Limitations


Supported Flash vendors

  • Micron
  • ISSI
  • Spansion
  • Macronix

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/qspipsu/examples

Test NameExample sourceDescription
Generic QSPI Interrupt Mode Example

xqspipsu_generic_flash_interrupt_example.c

xqspipsu_flash_config.h

This examples does basic read and write test from the SPI-NOR flash device in Interrupt mode.
Generic QSPI Polled Mode Example

xqspipsu_generic_flash_polled_example.c

xqspipsu_flash_config.h

This examples does basic read and write test from the SPI-NOR flash device in Polled mode.
Generic QSPI Non-blocking read example

xqspipsu_generic_flash_non_blocking_read_example.c

xqspipsu_flash_config.h

This examples does read in non blocking polled mode from the SPI-NOR flash device.
Generic QSPI NAND Interrupt Mode Example

xqspipsu_generic_nand_flash_interrupt_example.c

xqspipsu_flash_config.h

This examples does basic read and write test from the SPI-NAND flash device in Interrupt mode.
Generic QSPI NAND Polled Mode Example

xqspipsu_generic_nand_flash_polled_example.c

xqspipsu_flash_config.h

This examples does basic read and write test from the SPI-NAND flash device in Polled mode.
Generic QSPI 64 Bit DMA Mode Example

xqspipsu_generic_flash_polled_64bit_dma_r5_example.c

xqspipsu_flash_config.h

This example does read in polled mode with 64bit DMA from SPI-NOR flash device.
Generic QSPI Write Protection Example

xqspipsu_write_protect_example.c

xqspipsu_flash_config.h

This example tests the write protection feature of the SPI-NOR flash device
Generic QSPI Polldata Mode Example

xqspipsu_polldata_polltimeout_interrupt_example.c

xqspipsu_flash_config.h

This example illustrates, the use of polldata feature of the controller
Linear QSPI Example

xqspipsu_generic_flash_lqspi_example.c

xqspipsu_flash_config.h

This example writes in GQSPI mode & reads in linear mode.

Example Application Usage

Generic QSPI Interrupt Mode Example

This examples does basic read and write test from the flash device in Interrupt mode.

Expected Output

QSPIPSU Generic Flash Interrupt Example Test 

Cfg Init done, Baseaddress: 0xF1030100

FlashID=0x20 0xBB 0x21

Flash connection mode : 2

where 0 - Single; 1 - Stacked; 2 - Parallel

FCTIndex: 10

ReadCmd: 0x6B, WriteCmd: 0x2,StatusCmd: 0x70, FSRFlag: 1

Successfully ran QSPIPSU Generic Interrupt Example

Generic QSPI Polled Mode Example

This examples does basic read and write test from the flash device in Polled mode.

Expected Output

QSPIPSU Generic Flash Polled Example Test 

FlashID=0x20 0xBB 0x21

Flash connection mode : 2

where 0 - Single; 1 - Stacked; 2 - Parallel

FCTIndex: 10

ReadCmd: 0x6B, WriteCmd: 0x2, StatusCmd: 0x70, FSRFlag: 1

Successfully ran QSPIPSU Generic Flash Polled Example

Generic QSPI 64 Bit DMA Mode Example

This example does read in polled mode with 64bit DMA.

Expected Output

QSPIPSU Generic Flash Polled Example 64bit dma for r5Test 

FlashID=0x20 0xBB 0x21

Flash connection mode : 2

where 0 - Single; 1 - Stacked; 2 - Parallel

FCTIndex: 10

ReadCmd: 0x6B, WriteCmd: 0x2, StatusCmd: 0x70,FSRFlag: 1

Successfully ran Generic Flash Polled 64 bit dma r5 Example

Generic QSPI Polldata Mode Example

This example illustrates, the use of polldata feature of the controller

Expected Output

QSPIPSU Flash PollData and PollTimeout Example Test

Cfg Init done, Baseaddress: 0xF1030100

FlashID=0x20 0xBB 0x21

Flash connection mode : 2

where 0 - Single; 1 - Stacked; 2 - Parallel

FCTIndex: 10

ReadCmd: 0x6B, WriteCmd: 0x2, StatusCmd: 0x70, FSRFlag: 1

Successfully ran QSPIPSU PollData and PollTimeout Example

Generic QSPI Non-blocking read Example

This examples does read in non blocking polled mode from the SPI-NOR flash device.

Expected Output

QSPIPSU Generic Flash Non Blocking Read Example Test 

FlashID=0x20 0xBB 0x21

Flash connection mode : 2

where 0 - Single; 1 - Stacked; 2 - Parallel

FCTIndex: 10

ReadCmd: 0x6B, WriteCmd: 0x2, StatusCmd: 0x70, FSRFlag: 1

Successfully ran QSPIPSU Generic Flash Non Blocking Read Example

Generic QSPI Write Protection Example

This example tests the write protection feature of the SPI-NOR flash device

Expected Output

QSPIPSU Write Protect Example Test 

Cfg Init done, Baseaddress: 0xF1030100

FlashID=0x20 0xBB 0x21

Flash connection mode : 2

where 0 - Single; 1 - Stacked; 2 - Parallel

FCTIndex: 10

ReadCmd: 0xB, WriteCmd: 0x2, StatusCmd: 0x70, FSRFlag: 1

Successfully ran QSPIPSU Write Protect Example

Example Design Architecture

NA

Performance

Single

Qspipsu write throughput is 1326 KBPS
Qspipsu read throughput is 28339 KBPS

Dual-Parallel

Qspipsu write throughput is 2438 KBPS
Qspipsu read throughput is 54245 KBPS

Change Log

2024.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xlnx_rel_v2024.1/doc/ChangeLog#L512

2023.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xlnx_rel_v2023.2/doc/ChangeLog#L590

2023.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/c96985f7705bd19bd5e72d520c77553933049e9d/doc/ChangeLog#L109

2022.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/5330a64c8efd14f0eef09befdbb8d3d738c33ec2/doc/ChangeLog#L127

2022.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2022.1/doc/ChangeLog#L69

2021.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/49c6694fc3cab6b87dd564da58a83bb8656a7c03/doc/ChangeLog#L234

2021.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2021.1/doc/ChangeLog#L374

2020.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx-v2020.2/doc/ChangeLog#L653

2020.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx-v2020.1/doc/ChangeLog#L95

2019.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx-v2019.2/doc/ChangeLog#L70

2019.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx-v2019.1/doc/ChangeLog#L132

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