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UG585 (v1.11) September 27, 2016
Chapter 22: Programmable Logic Design Guide
22.4.4 PL DMA via AXI High-Performance (HP) Interface
The high-performance (S_AXI_HP) PL interfaces provide high-bandwidth PL slave interfaces to OCM
and DDR memories. The AXI_HP ports are unable to access any other slaves. With four, 64-bit wide
interfaces, the AXI_HP provide the greatest aggregate interface bandwidth. The multiple interfaces
also save PL resources by reducing the need to a PL AXI interconnect. Each AXI_HP contains control
and data FIFOs to provide buffering of transactions for larger sets of bursts, making it ideal for
workloads such as video frame buffering in DDR. This additional logic and arbitration does result in
higher minimum latency than other interfaces.
The user IP logic residing in the PL will generally consist of a low-speed control interface and higher
performance burst interface, as shown in Figure 22-3. If control flow is orchestrated by the
Cortex-A9 CPU, the general purpose M_AXI_GP port can be used for tasks such as configuring the
memory addresses the User IP should access and transaction status. Transaction status can also be
conveyed via PL to PS interrupts. Higher performance devices connected to AXI_HP should be able to
issue multiple outstanding transactions to take advantage of the AXI_HP FIFOs.
The PL design complexity of multiple AXI interfaces along with the associated PL utilization are the
primary drawbacks of implementing a DMA engine in the PL for both S_AXI_HP and S_AXI_ACP
interfaces.
See Chapter 5, Interconnect for more information on the AXI_HP interface.
X-Ref Target - Figure 22-2
Figure 22-2: Example DMAC DMA Topology
IRQ
L2
Cache Memory
512 KB
DDR
Memory
Controller
16-bit
32-bit
16-bit w/ECC
DMA
8 channel
PCAP
Processor Config
Access Port
M_AXI_GP x 2
General Purpose
32-bit AXI Master
S_AXI_GP x 2
General Purpose
32-bit AXI Slave
S_AXI_HP x 4
AXI Data
32/64-bit Slave
SCU – Snoop Control Unit
Central
Interconnect
ARM A9
32 KB I-Cache
32 KB D-Cache
NEON
SP, DP FPU
128-bit Vector DSP
OCM
On Chip Memory
256 KB
S_AXI_ACP
AXI Coherent
64-bit Slave
Mem Switch
SLCR
System Level
Control
Registers
I/O Interface
Security
Config
XADC
16 ch ADC
Block RAM
User
IP
Control
Quad-SPI
1,2,4,8-bit
Parallel 8-bit
NOR/SRAM
NAND 8,16-bit
UART
UART
SPI
SPI
I2C
I2C
CAN
CAN
TTC/SWDT
PJTAG
Reset
CLK / PLL
ARM, I/O, DDR
PS_POR_B
PS_SRST_B
PS_CLK
DDR
CoreSight
Trace In
Trace Out
Cross Trigger
DAP
APB
Register Access
Processing
System (PS)
EMIO
USB
USB
GigE
GigE
SD
SD
DMA
DMA
DMA
DMA
DMA
DMA
GPIO x54, x64
MIO
Pins
NEON
SP, DP FPU
128-bit Vector DSP
ARM A9
32 KB I-Cache
32 KB D-Cache
UG585_c22_04_102414
Programmable
Logic (PL)
PCIe
GTX or
GTP
NOTE: GigaBit Transceiver and PCIe
functionality are not available in
all device versions and packages.