Hi all, I have made a simple fifo that reads value from HPS on cyclone V board. I have trouble in understanding how fifo is giving me back data here. If you see the output below then there are couple of things that I dont understand
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Why read pointer is always 1 step behind the write pointer.
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What is this dump value at position zero of read pointer.
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How can I get all my values back from read pointer?
Here is the snapshot of my design and my code and output.
The c code to read and write data to fifo#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include “C:\altera\15.1\embedded\ip\altera\hps\altera_hps\hwlib\include\hwlib.h”
#include “C:\altera\15.1\embedded\ip\altera\hps\altera_hps\hwlib\include\soc_cv_av\socal\socal.h”
#include “C:\altera\15.1\embedded\ip\altera\hps\altera_hps\hwlib\include\soc_cv_av\socal\hps.h”
#include “C:\altera\15.1\embedded\ip\altera\hps\altera_hps\hwlib\include\soc_cv_av\socal\alt_gpio.h”
#include “D:\TestDesigns\customfifoloopback1\hps_0.h”
//fifo status pointers
//#define FIFO_FULL (((FIFO_write_status_ptr+1))& 1 )
//#define FIFO_EMPTY (((FIFO_read_ptr+1))& 2 )//LW Addresses
#define REG_BASE 0xFF200000
#define REG_SPAN 0x00200000//initializing the pointers
void* virtual_base;
volatile unsigned int * FIFO_write_status_ptr= NULL;
volatile unsigned int * FIFO_read_status_ptr = NULL ;
volatile unsigned int * FIFO_write_ptr = NULL ;
volatile unsigned int * FIFO_read_ptr = NULL ;
unsigned int value;
int data[5];
int i;
//int FIFO_FULL;
//int FIFO_EMPTY;
//main functions
int main ()
{int fd = EXIT_FAILURE;
fd=open("/dev/mem",(O_RDWR|O_SYNC));
if (fd < 0) {
perror(“open”);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
printf(“fd is ok\n”);//accessing the virtual addresses of the fifo pointers
virtual_base=mmap(NULL,REG_SPAN,(PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE),MAP_SHARED,fd,REG_BASE);
printf(“virtual base pointer to open device memory file is ok\n”);FIFO_write_status_ptr = (unsigned int *)(virtual_base+FIFO_0_IN_CSR_BASE);
FIFO_read_status_ptr = (unsigned int *)(virtual_base+FIFO_0_OUT_CSR_BASE);
FIFO_write_ptr=(unsigned int *)(virtual_base+FIFO_0_IN_BASE);
FIFO_read_ptr= (unsigned int *)(virtual_base+FIFO_0_OUT_BASE);
printf(“fifo pointers are ok\n”);//entering data into the fifo
for(i=0;i<8;i++)
{
data[i]=i+1;
*FIFO_write_ptr=data[i];
printf("////////////////////////////\n");
printf(“you entered the value %d\n”,*FIFO_write_ptr);
printf(“fifo write status pointer is %d\n”,*FIFO_write_status_ptr);
printf("//////////////////////////////\n");
}printf(“reading back the data\n”);
for(i=0;i<8;i++)
{
//reading data from the fifo
printf("////////////////////////////\n");
printf(“the output value from the fifo is%d\n”,*FIFO_read_ptr);
printf(“fifo read status pointer is %d\n”,*FIFO_read_status_ptr);
printf("/////////////////////////////\n");
}
return 0;
}