This page gives an overview of the bare-metal driver support for the Xilinx® LogiCORE™ IP AXI Video Direct Memory Access (AXI VDMA) soft IP.

Introduction

The AXI VDMA core is a soft Xilinx IP core for use with the Xilinx Vivado® Design Suite. It provides high-bandwidth direct Memory access between memory and AXI4-Stream video type target peripherals including peripherals which support the AXI4-Stream Video protocol as described in the Video IP:AXI Feature Adoption section of the Vivado AXI Reference Guide (UG1037)

For more information, please refer to the AXI VDMA product page which includes links to the official documentation and resource utilization.

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.

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Driver Name	Path in Vitis	Path in Github
axivdma	<Vitis Install Directory>/data/embedded/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/axivdma_<version>	https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/axivdma

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/axivdma

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

Directory	Description
doc	Provides the API and data structure details
data	Driver .tcl, .mdd file and .yaml files
examples	Example applications that show how to use the driver features
src	Driver source files, 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 VDMA product page.

Features

The AXI VDMA Standalone driver supports the following features:

Supports 64-bit Addressing
Supports Gen-Lock Synchronization
Supports up to 32 frame buffers
Supports frame advance or repeat on error
Supports Parking Mode
Supports Circular Buffer Mode

Known Issues and Limitations

The following is a list of known limitations of the driver and features of the IP that are not currently implemented:

When H/w is configured without DRE driver will throw an error if the user sends an unaligned buffer address.
User application should handle buffer address alignment in case h/w is configured without DRE

Example Design Architecture

The examples assumes AXI VDMA IP is configured in loopback mode.

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/axivdma/examples

Test Name	Example Source	Description
Self Test	xaxivdma_example_selftest.c	This example does a basic reset of the core and checks core is coming out of reset or not.
Video Frame transfer with interrupts	xaxivdma_example_intr.c	This example demonstrates how to do video frame transfers in AXI Video DMA loopback mode. This example reads video frames from memory, using Memory Map to Stream (MM2S) interface, and then video frames are written to memory using Stream to Memory Map (S2MM) AXI4 interface. At the end of transfer it does sanity check and report pass/fail status.

Example Application Usage

Self Test

This example does a basic reset of the core and checks core is coming out of reset or not.

Expected Output

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

Video Frame transfer with interrupts

This example demonstrates how to do video frame transfers in AXI Video DMA loopback mode.

Expected Output

--- Entering main() ---
Successfully ran axivdma intr Example
--- Exiting main() ---

Change Log

2024.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2024.1/doc/ChangeLog#L865

2023.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xlnx_rel_v2023.2/doc/ChangeLog#L548

2023.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2023.1/doc/ChangeLog#L56

2022.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2022.2/doc/ChangeLog#L80

2022.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2022.1/doc/ChangeLog#L247

2021.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2021.2/doc/ChangeLog#L196

2021.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx_v2021.1/doc/ChangeLog#L43

2020.2

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx-v2020.2/doc/ChangeLog#L358

2020.1

https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/blob/xilinx-v2020.1/doc/ChangeLog#L290

2019.2

None

Xilinx Wiki

AXI VDMA Standalone Driver

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