# How to add a new peripheral
This document describes the process of adding a new peripheral to
-the pinmux and auto-generator, through a worked example, adding
-SDRAM.
+the pinmux and auto-generator, through worked examples, adding
+SDRAM and eMMC. First to be covered is SDMMC
-# Creating the specifications
+# Adding a Fast Peripheral
+
+This section covers how to add a peripheral that is intended to go
+onto the "Fast" peripheral bus.
+
+## Creating the specifications
The tool is split into two halves that are separated by tab-separated
files. The first step is therefore to add a function that defines
shorthand for SDMMC and another named "SDRAM" may *not* be added:
the first has to be the full "SDMMC" or renamed to "MMC".
-# Adding the peripheral to a chip's pinmux specification
+## Adding the peripheral to a chip's pinmux specification
Next, we add the peripheral to an actual chip's specification. In this
case it is to be added to i\_class, so we open src/spec/i\_class.py. The
for viability prior to actually committing the engineering resources
to their deployment.
-# Adding the code auto-generators.
+## Adding the code auto-generators.
With the specification now created and well-defined (and now including
the SDRAM interface), the next completely separate phase is to auto-generate
pragmatic decision is being taken not to put 92 pins of 133mhz+ signalling
through muxing.
-## Making the peripheral a "MultiBus" peripheral
+### Making the peripheral a "MultiBus" peripheral
The sheer number of signals coming out of PeripheralSideSDR is so unwieldy
that something has to be done. We therefore create a "MultiBus" interface
endinterface
-## Adding the peripheral
+### Adding the peripheral
In examining the slow\_peripherals.bsv file, there should at this stage
be no sign of an SDRAM peripheral having been added, at all. This is
peripheral may be declared in the "fast" fabric and connected up to the
relevant and required "fast" bus.
-## Connecting in the fabric
+### Connecting in the fabric
Now we can begin the process of systematically inserting the correct
"voodoo magic" incantations that, as far as this auto-generator tool is
that drop sdram.axi4\_slave\_sdram and its associated cntrl reg from
the soc\_template.bsv file.
-## Connecting up the pins
+### Connecting up the pins
We are still not done! It is however worth pointing out that if this peripheral
were not wired into the pinmux, we would in fact be finished. However there
where pin entries with numerically matching names were "grouped" into single
multi-bit declarations.
-## Adjusting the BSV Interface to a get/put style
+### Adjusting the BSV Interface to a get/put style
For various reasons, related to BSV not permitting wires to be connected
back-to-back inside the pinmux code, a get/put style of interface had to
related exclusively to the actual pins. Resolution of these two issues
is currently outside of the scope of this document.
-## Clock synchronisation
+### Clock synchronisation
Astute readers, if their heads have not exploded by this point, will
have noticed earlier that the SDRAM instance was declared with an entirely
it is worth emphasising that the pinmux is *entirely* unclocked zero-reset
combinatorial logic.
+# Adding a "Slow" Peripheral
+
+This example will be cheating by cut/paste copying an existing very
+similar interface, SD/MMC. The SD/MMC interface is presently a "dummy"
+that will be extended later. However given that the peripherals are
+so very very similar, common base classes will be used, in a style that
+has also been used in SPI/QSPI and also UART.
+
+## Adding the pin specifications
+
+Looking at src/spec/pinfunctions.py we find that an emmc function actually
+already exists. So unlike sdram, there are no modifications to be made.
+We can check that it works by creating an example, say in src/spec/i\_class.py
+by adding an emmc interface to Bank B:
+
+ ps.gpio("", ('B', 0), 0, 0, 18)
+ ps.flexbus1("", ('B', 0), 1, spec=flexspec)
+ ps.emmc("", ('B', 0), 3) <---
+
+ ps.flexbus2("", ('C', 0), 0)
+
+
# Conclusion
This is not a small project, by any means. However the payoff in saved
'JTAG': 'JTAG (JTAG_SEL=HI/LO)',
'LCD': '24-pin RGB/TTL LCD',
'RG': 'RGMII Ethernet',
- 'MMC': 'eMMC 1/2/4/8 pin',
+ 'EMMC': 'eMMC 1/2/4/8 pin',
'PWM': 'PWM (pulse-width modulation)',
- 'SD0': 'SD/MMC 0',
- 'SD1': 'SD/MMC 1',
- 'SD2': 'SD/MMC 2',
+ 'MMC0': 'SD/MMC 0',
+ 'MMC1': 'SD/MMC 1',
+ 'MMC2': 'SD/MMC 2',
'MSPI0': 'SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) Master 0',
'MSPI1': 'SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) Master 1',
'MQSPI': 'Quad SPI Master 0',
}
ps.gpio("", ('B', 0), 0, 0, 18)
ps.flexbus1("", ('B', 0), 1, spec=flexspec)
+ ps.emmc("", ('B', 0), 3)
ps.flexbus2("", ('C', 0), 0)
# using "BM:Name". Pins are removed in-order as listed from
# lists (interfaces, EINTs, PWMs) from available pins.
- i_class = ['ULPI0/8', 'ULPI1', 'MMC', 'SD0', 'UART0',
- 'TWI0', 'MSPI0', 'B3:SD1', ]
+ i_class = ['ULPI0/8', 'ULPI1', 'EMMC', 'MMC0', 'UART0',
+ 'TWI0', 'MSPI0', 'B3:MMC1', ]
i_class_eint = ['EINT_0', 'EINT_1', 'EINT_2', 'EINT_3', 'EINT_4']
i_class_pwm = ['B2:PWM_0']
descriptions = {
- 'MMC': 'internal (on Card)',
+ 'EMMC': 'internal (on Card)',
'SD0': 'user-facing: internal (on Card), multiplexed with JTAG\n'
'and UART2, for debug purposes',
'TWI2': 'I2C.\n',
- 'E2:SD1': '',
+ 'E2:MMC1': '',
'MSPI1': '',
'UART0': '',
'B1:LCD/22': '18-bit RGB/TTL LCD',