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Chapter 7: Testbench
Testbench Sequence
RapidIO II MegaCore Function
August 2014
Altera Corporation
User Guide
NWRITE Transactions
To perform NWRITE operations, one register in the IP core must be reconfigured as
shown in
. With these settings, any write operation presented across the
Input/Output Avalon-MM slave interface is translated into a RapidIO NWRITE
transaction.
The testbench generates a predetermined series of burst writes across the
Input/Output Avalon-MM slave module's Avalon-MM write interface on the DUT.
These write bursts are each converted into an NWRITE request packet that is sent over
the RapidIO serial interface. The testbench cycles from two to 128 in steps of 8 bytes.
Two tasks are run to carry out the burst writes, rw_addr_data and rw_data. The
rw_addr_data
task initiates the burst and the rw_data task completes the remainder of
the burst. The ios_128_rd_wr_master_bfm read_write_cmd task generates the burst
writes.
The sister_rio module receives the NWRITE request packets and presents them across
the I/O master Avalon-MM slave interface as write transactions. The testbench calls
the sister_iom128_rd_wr_slave_bfm read_write_data task to capture the written
data. The written data is checked against the expected value.
The testbench also generates NWRITE transactions with an invalid destination ID if
the DUT has both of these properties:
■
Includes an Avalon-ST pass-through interface
■
Has Disable destination ID checking by default turned off
In this case, the testbench validates that the DUT correctly routes these packets to the
Avalon-ST pass-through interface.
Doorbell Transactions
To test DOORBELL messages, the doorbell interrupts must be enabled. To enable
interrupts, the testbench sets the lower three bits in the Doorbell Interrupt Enable
register located at address 0x0000_0020. The test also programs the DUT to store all of
the successful and unsuccessful DOORBELL messages in the Tx Completion FIFO.
For more information, refer to
.
Table 7–4. NWRITE Transactions
Module
Register
Address
Name
Value
Description
rio
0x1040C
Input/Output Slave
Mapping Window
0
Control
32'h00CD_0000
or
32'hCDCD_0000
Sets the DESTINATION_ID for outgoing
transactions to the value 0xCD or 0xCDCD,
depending on the device ID width of the
sister_rio. This value matches the base device ID
of the sister_rio. Sets the write request type back
to NWRITE.