Simulating the Example Design - 1.1 English

Versal Adaptive SoC Transceivers Wizard LogiCORE IP Product Guide (PG331)

Document ID
PG331
Release Date
2023-10-24
Version
1.1 English

To simulate an instance of the Wizard IP core, first open its example design.

In the example project, go to Run > Simulation > Run Behavioral Simulation in the Vivado Integrated Design Environment (IDE) to start a behavioral simulation.

See Lab 6 in Vivado Design Suite Tutorial: Logic Simulation (UG937) for GTME5 integer ports related simulation updates.

The example design simulation test bench provides the requisite free-running clock and transceiver reference clock signals, and a reset all pulse to the example design logic and reset controller helper block input ports. This stimulus is sufficient to enable the helper blocks to bring up the remainder of the system. After some time, the transceiver PLL(s) will achieve lock, allowing the reset controller helper block finite state machines to complete the full reset sequence. After the completion of the reset sequence, you can observe the example stimulus module transmitting data. A short time later, the example checking module begins to search for data alignment and checks for data integrity, which is in turn used by the link status logic to drive the link status indicator. In multi-line rate configurations, the example design switches to the next line rate and again tries to achieve lock and other Reset Done signals. You can observe that when *rate_sel[3:0] ports are toggled, their corresponding *outclk values change after *resetdone is asserted high.

Figure 1. Simulation Waveform Showing Rate Change

The rate port should be driven with 0 until the initial tx/rx_resetdone_out_ip0 is asserted.

The default value of tx/rx_resetdone_out_ip0 is high until gtpowergood is asserted high and goes low when ch*_tx/rxmstreset is applied to the quad. Finally, it measures the expected user clk frequency to ensure the expected line rate is achieved. After every rate change, it prints the following message:
Finally, the following messages are printed to the transcript, which indicates that the test is passed.