From 3abce69f7cd3314de57923ad2a3a05b9c9c135ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Corey Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:54:05 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] multimode clb simple documentation complete --- tutorial/02_multimode.ipynb | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/tutorial/02_multimode.ipynb b/tutorial/02_multimode.ipynb index 26932f8a3..cd63f96a5 100644 --- a/tutorial/02_multimode.ipynb +++ b/tutorial/02_multimode.ipynb @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Multimode CLB\n", - "In the I/O section of the architecture, the `` tag was used to define different modes for the block. One mode was for input, the other mode for output. Modes are also used in CLBs. Open the file `OpenFPGA/tutorial/02_multimode_arch.xml`. It defines two modes for its CLB: a 6-LUT, or two 5-LUTs with shared inputs.\n", + "In the I/O section of the architecture, the `` tag was used to define different modes for the block. One mode was for input, the other mode for output. Modes are also used in CLBs. Open the file `OpenFPGA/tutorial/02_multimode_arch.xml`. It defines two modes for its CLB: either a 6-LUT, or two 5-LUTs with shared inputs.\n", "\n", "Find the line `` which begins the definition of the CLB. The next few lines define the inputs and outputs: 40 input pins, 20 output pins, and a clock pin. The inputs are marked with `equivalent=\"full\"` which indicates that the inputs have logical equivalence so their locations may be freely swapped. The outputs are `equivalent=\"none\"` so they may not be swapped.\n", "\n", - "The next primitive block is `` which is a fracturable logic element that contains the two different modes of this CLB. There are 10 of this `fle` in the CLB. Each `fle` has 6 inputs, 2 outputs, and one clock pin.\n", + "The next primitive block is `` which is a fracturable logic element that contains the two different modes of this CLB. There are 10 instances of this `fle` in the CLB. Each `fle` has 6 inputs, 2 outputs, and one clock pin.\n", "\n", "### First Mode\n", "`` begins the definition of the first mode. Moving down the architecture file, we see that in this mode, the `fle` contains one `lut5inter` block which contains two `ble5` blocks. The `ble5` blocks have 5 inputs and 1 output. The next group of lines define the LUT and FF in `ble5`.\n", @@ -17,17 +17,35 @@ "Moving down to the second `` block:\n", "```\n", "\n", - " \n", - " \n", - " \n", - " \n", + " \n", + " \n", + " \n", + " \n", "\n", "```\n", "we see that the input of `lut5inter` is connected to the inputs of both the first and second `ble5` blocks. Then the two outputs of the two `ble5` blocks go to the two outputs of `lut5inter`. Finally, there is a fully connected crossbar that connects the `lut5inter` clock input to the two `ble5` clock inputs.\n", "\n", "Finishing out this mode, there is the last interconnect section. Note the line: ``. It shows that out of the 6 `fle` input lines, only the first 5 lines are connected to `lut5inter`. The remaining line is unused.\n", "\n", - "### Second Mode\n" + "### Second Mode\n", + "`` begins the definition of the second mode. In this mode, the `fle` block contains one block named `ble6` with 6 inputs and one output. Moving down the architecture, we see that it contains one LUT named `lut6` with 6 inputs and one output, and one flip-flop named `ff`. \n", + "\n", + "Moving down to this mode's `` block:\n", + "```\n", + "\n", + " \n", + " \n", + " \n", + "\n", + "```\n", + "we see that the input of `fle` is connected to the input of `ble6`, the output of `ble6` is connected to one output of `fle`, and the clock pins are wired together. The remaining output of `fle` is unused in this mode.\n", + "\n", + "The final `` section takes care of the wiring inside the top-level `clb` block. There is a fully connected crossbar that takes as its input the inputs to `clb` as well as the outputs from `flb` in a feedback loop. The crossbar's outputs go to `flb`'s inputs. Then a crossbar connects the clock pins. Now recall that the first mode of `clb` uses both of `flb`'s outputs, but the second mode uses only one outputs. The lines:\n", + "```\n", + " \n", + " \n", + "```\n", + "ensure that if a logic block is completely filled by 6-LUTs, then the outputs those 6-LUTs take get evenly distributed across all four sides of the CLB instead of clumped on two sides.\n" ] }, {