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by tnt
Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:47 pm
Forum: EOS-S3
Topic: FPGA routing structure and other pnr questions
Replies: 2
Views: 20597

FPGA routing structure and other pnr questions

Is there any documents / diagram that detail how the routing structure works and what kind of "faster path" exist ? Looking at some timing reports and some parts of the toolchain I had also some questions : * The LUT4 from yosys get broken out in LUT3 + a F_FRAG. But will VTR stil map them...
by tnt
Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:41 pm
Forum: EOS-S3
Topic: S3 device package
Replies: 5
Views: 18618

Re: S3 device package

I'd definitely go for QFN or BGA. BGA really isn't that much of an obstacle especially when you go for larger pitch like 0.8 or 1mm. For QFN I actually think 64 with .5 mm pitch is pretty perfect. Good compromise between the chip size and the number of IOs. It's easy to deal with/break out on cheap ...
by tnt
Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:20 am
Forum: EOS-S3
Topic: S3 device package
Replies: 5
Views: 18618

Re: S3 device package

Which is a bit of a shame because it's a very convenient package for prototyping / experimenting. 0.4mm pitch as the "largest" pitch package is not great for OSHW devices you'd want people to be able and reproduce. No way to do that in common batch prototype PCB providers. 0.8 mm pitch (po...
by tnt
Thu Jun 11, 2020 2:31 pm
Forum: EOS-S3
Topic: Simulation models errors
Replies: 1
Views: 13483

Simulation models errors

Someone might want to do a sanity check of the models because : For instance for dffpc : always @(posedge CLK or posedge CLK or posedge PRE) if (CLR) Q <= 1'b0; else if (PRE) Q <= 1'b1; else Q <= D; One of the `posedge CLK` should be `posedge CLR` obviously. Also, the dffepc is doing a preset when C...
by tnt
Mon Jun 08, 2020 6:24 pm
Forum: EOS-S3
Topic: IO block
Replies: 3
Views: 16151

Re: IO block

Ok, tx for the info.
by tnt
Mon Jun 08, 2020 6:22 pm
Forum: EOS-S3
Topic: RAM blocks in S3 programmable logic
Replies: 6
Views: 18640

Re: RAM blocks in S3 programmable logic

For the init: Yeah (2) was my fallback. Thankfully the RAM I need initialized is actually a large ROM which mean the "Write side" can trivially be connected to the wishbone with very little logic cost. But it's good to know that (1) is supported by the hardware itself. For the example, yea...
by tnt
Mon Jun 08, 2020 2:38 pm
Forum: EOS-S3
Topic: S3 FPGA clock max frequency in Datasheet
Replies: 2
Views: 14506

Re: S3 FPGA clock max frequency in Datasheet

I'm starting to fear it's not a mistake :( I just did a simple design with a 24 bits counter with the 3 MSBs connected to LEDs. That results in a logic with ~ 8 LUT deep longest path and I get a ~ 22-24 MHz fmax result which is disappointingly slow :/ I don't understand how you got USB to work at al...
by tnt
Sun Jun 07, 2020 4:38 pm
Forum: SymbiFlow
Topic: First impressions on FPGA toolchain
Replies: 13
Views: 38546

Re: First impressions on FPGA toolchain

There seem to be another issue with the toolchain source : The installed scripts ( from quicklogic/toolchain_wrappers ) are completely different from the one in the binary release. I have no idea where the latter are supposed to come from, I couldn't find them in any source repository ...
by tnt
Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:05 am
Forum: EOS-S3
Topic: IO block
Replies: 3
Views: 16151

IO block

So `bipad` is the IO buffer control, seems obvious. But this doesn't contain the IO registers themselves (those shown in Figure 37). I thought 'gpio_cell_macro' might be that but the simulation model doesn't show any registers there either and it's missing some signals like IQZ and ... a clock input...
by tnt
Sun Jun 07, 2020 10:33 am
Forum: EOS-S3
Topic: RAM blocks in S3 programmable logic
Replies: 6
Views: 18640

Re: RAM blocks in S3 programmable logic

Also ... you can't initialize the RAM block content can you ?