Selected issues of the universal communication environment implementation for CII standard

Zagoździńska, A.; Poźniak, Krzysztof T.; Drabik, P.

doi:10.1117/12.902748

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“…The author found the following 15 tools addressing the bus and register management problem: airhdl [14], AGWB [15,16], AutoFPGA [17], Cheby [18,19], Corsair [20], hdl_registers [21], II (Internal Interface) [22], CII (Component Internal Interface) [23,24], IP-XACT [25], Opentitan [26,27], Register Wizard [28,29], RgGen [30], SystemRDL [31], VhdMMIO [32], and Wbgen2 [33]. Some FPGA tool vendors also try to address the problem (for example, Block Designer-AMD Xilinx, Platform Designer-Intel).…”

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How Shifting Focus from Register to Data Functionality Can Enhance Register and Bus Management

Kruszewski

2024

Electronics

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Bus and register management is one of the crucial aspects of application-specific integrated circuit-, system-on-chip-, or field-programmable gate array-based designs. The problems related to it are well known, and multiple tools or approaches are already trying to solve or mitigate them. However, all available solutions share the same register-centric paradigm. A user defines registers and then manually lays out the data into the registers. Such an approach has its limitations. A description does not contain information on data spanning multiple registers or data forming a broader context, for example, procedure arguments. It also does not contain information on the purpose of the data. As a result, the generated access code is low-level and usually needs an extra wrapper, which leaves room for potential human mistakes. For instance, it is the user’s responsibility to guarantee proper access order to registers or to provide an atomic change of data wider than a single register width. This article proposes a new approach, the functionality-centric approach. In the functionality-centric approach, the user defines the data with the type of their functionality. The registers and bus hierarchy are later implicitly inferred. By defining the functionality of the data placed in the registers, it is possible to generate more access code, increase code robustness, improve system design readability, and shorten the implementation process.

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How Shifting Focus from Register to Data Functionality Can Enhance Register and Bus Management

Kruszewski

2024

Electronics

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“…The Internal Interface (II) was developed by Krzysztof Pozniak and others for electronic systems created for CMS and DESY [31][32][33]. It has been later extended with object functionalities, forming the Component Internal Interface (CII) [34,35]. II initially was using a VME-like interface as a local FPGA bus.…”

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Control and Diagnostics System Generator for Complex FPGA-Based Measurement Systems

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Sensors

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FPGA-based data acquisition and processing systems play an important role in modern high-speed, multichannel measurement systems, especially in High-Energy and Plasma Physics. Such FPGA-based systems require an extended control and diagnostics part corresponding to the complexity of the controlled system. Managing the complex structure of registers while keeping the tight coupling between hardware and software is a tedious and potentially error-prone process. Various existing solutions aimed at helping that task do not perfectly match all specific requirements of that application area. The paper presents a new solution based on the XML system description, facilitating the automated generation of the control system’s HDL code and software components and enabling easy integration with the control software. The emphasis is put on reusability, ease of maintenance in the case of system modification, easy detection of mistakes, and the possibility of use in modern FPGAs. The presented system has been successfully used in data acquisition and preprocessing projects in high-energy physics experiments. It enables easy creation and modification of the control system definition and convenient access to the control and diagnostic blocks. The presented system is an open-source solution and may be adopted by the user for particular needs.

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Selected issues of the universal communication environment implementation for CII standard

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How Shifting Focus from Register to Data Functionality Can Enhance Register and Bus Management

How Shifting Focus from Register to Data Functionality Can Enhance Register and Bus Management

Control and Diagnostics System Generator for Complex FPGA-Based Measurement Systems

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