Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA – Intel Stratix 10 Programmable Acceleration Card Four-Channel DDR4 RDIMM Design Example

Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA – Intel Stratix 10 Programmable Acceleration Card Four-Channel DDR4 RDIMM Design Example

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1/2/2019

Introduction

This design demonstrates how to operate and debug four channels of DDR4 RDIMM on an Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Stratix® 10 SX FPGA.

Development Kit

Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kits

Design Details

Device Family

Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs
Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
Quartus Version

18.1
IP Cores (18)
IP Core IP Core Category
Top level generated instrumentation fabric Debug & Performance
Stratix 10 External Memory Interfaces Memory Interfaces and Controllers
EMIF Architecture Component for the Stratix 10 Device Family Internal Components
Arria 10 External Memory Interfaces Debug Component ExternalMemoryInterfaces
Avalon-MM Pipeline Bridge QsysInterconnect
alt_mem_if JTAG to Avalon Master Bridge BridgesAndAdaptors
Avalon-ST Bytes to Packets Converter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Channel Adapter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Single Clock FIFO QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST JTAG Interface QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Packets to Bytes Converter QsysInterconnect
Reset Controller QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Timing Adapter QsysInterconnect
Avalon Packets to Transaction Converter QsysInterconnect
MM Interconnect QsysInterconnect
Avalon-MM Slave Translator QsysInterconnect
Avalon-MM Master Translator QsysInterconnect
EMIF Example Avalon Traffic Generator ExternalMemoryInterfaces

Detailed Description

Prepare the design template in the Quartus Prime software GUI (version 14.1 and later)


Note: After downloading the design example, you must prepare the design template. The file you downloaded is of the form of a <project>.par file which contains a compressed version of your design files (similar to a .qar file) and metadata describing the project. The combination of this information is what constitutes a <project>.par file. In releases 16.0 or newer, you can simply double click on the <project>.par file and Quartus will launch that project.


The second means to bring up the project template is through the New Project Wizard (File -> New Project Wizard). After entering the project name and folder on the first panel, the second panel will ask you to specify an empty project or project template. Select project template. You will see a list of Design Templates projects that you have loaded prior as well as various "Baseline Pinout Designs" that contain the pinout and settings for a variety of development kits. If you don't see your design template in the list, click on the link that states install the Design Templates circled below:



Browse to the <project>.par file you downloaded, click next, followed by Finish, and your design template will be installed and displayed in the Project Navigator pane in Quartus.


Note: When a design is stored in the Design Store as a design template, it has been previously regression tested against the stated version of Quartus software. The regression ensures the design template passes analysis/synthesis/fitting/assembly steps in the Quartus design flow.



Prepare the design template in the Quartus Prime software command-line


At the command-line, type the following command:

quartus_sh --platform_install -package <project directory>/<project>.par


Once the process completes, then type:

quartus_sh --platform -name <project>



Note:

* ACDS Version: 18.1.0 Pro


Development Kit

Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kits

Design Details

Device Family

Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs
Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
Quartus Version

18.1