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Looking for basics and big picture
Posted by Fizzy on April 26th, 2006


Hi all,

First please forgive me for my little knowledge about embedded system.
I am trying to design an embedded application on a Xilinx FPGA Virtex-4
series. This has PPC405 core on it. Now i am trying to write an
application as IP. Lets say a simple SPI cotroller. I know i have to
interface this with PLB (Porcessor Local Bus) using IPIF module
provided by Xilinx in EDK. What i am missing is actualy very basic idea
here.

1. Once the 64 - bit data reaches the IP how does it been utilized by
the IP. So when 64-bit data comes is it stored in some kind of FIFO?

2. How IP is reffered to RAM? So many times i have heard about memory
mapping but never got a real answer. Any IP is composed of lot of
register and all these registers have some address in memory with a
base address as being the address of the IP and than inner register? is
that right.

3. Can some buddy tell me the follow of data in gernel without
application specific in FPGA.

Thanks

Posted by Dave on April 27th, 2006


On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:44:21 -0700, Fizzy wrote:

My best advice: post your question on comp.arch.fpga.


~Dave~


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