routing DDR3 fails with invalid clock parameters

[agemoz]

Has anyone gotten the DDR3 module to work with the alchrity AU+ board?  I followed the tutorial at

https://alchitry.com/blogs/tutorials/usi...lchitry-au

and also just ran a pure verilog version on Vivado, neither one of which appears to work. Lot's of other stuff is working on this board, but I've had no luck with the DDR3.

I have the xilinx DDR3 module instantiated, along with a MMCM clock synthesis generating 100Mhz input, 100Mhz to sys_clk_i and 200Mhz to clk_ref_i.  Vivado synthesizes without error, but routing DRC complains about this:


[DRC PDRC-34] MMCM_adv_ClkFrequency_div_no_dclk: The computed value 200.000 MHz (CLKIN1_PERIOD, net pll_clk3) for the VCO operating frequency of the MMCME2_ADV site MMCME2_ADV_X0Y2 (cell i_mig_7series_0/u_mig_7series_0_mig/u_ddr3_infrastructure/gen_mmcm.mmcm_i) falls outside the operating range of the MMCM VCO frequency for this device (600.000 - 1200.000 MHz). The computed value is (CLKFBOUT_MULT_F * 1000 / (CLKINx_PERIOD * DIVCLK_DIVIDE)). Please run update_timing to update the MMCM settings. If that does not work, adjust either the input period CLKINx_PERIOD (40.000000), multiplication factor CLKFBOUT_MULT_F (8.000000) or the division factor DIVCLK_DIVIDE (1), in order to achieve a VCO frequency within the rated operating range for this device.

Looks like the internals of the Xilinx DDR3 module expects something different for the sys_clk_i and clk_ref_i frequencies.  It suggests updating timing (Vivado wont allow me to do this), and setting the CLKIN1_PERIOD and other parameters manually is grayed out. 

Any suggestions? I tried to do an example with Lucid following the tutorial, but that failed as well--it is getting confused what the top level file is--never finds it--and never builds.

Here's the top level source instantiation

mig_7series_0 i_mig_7series_0
(
   .ddr3_dq             (ddr3_dq),
   .ddr3_dqs_n          (ddr3_dqs_n),
   .ddr3_dqs_p          (ddr3_dqs_p),
   .ddr3_addr           (ddr3_addr),
   .ddr3_ba             (ddr3_ba),
   .ddr3_ras_n          (ddr3_ras_n),
   .ddr3_cas_n          (ddr3_cas_n),
   .ddr3_we_n           (ddr3_we_n),
   .ddr3_reset_n        (ddr3_reset_n),
   .ddr3_ck_p           (ddr3_ck_p),
   .ddr3_ck_n           (ddr3_ck_n),
   .ddr3_cke            (ddr3_cke),
   .ddr3_cs_n           (ddr3_cs_n),
   .ddr3_dm             (ddr3_dm),
   .ddr3_odt            (ddr3_odt),

   .sys_clk_i           (sysclk),
   .clk_ref_i           (sysclk_2x),
   .app_addr            (dev_ddr3_addr),
   .app_cmd             ({2'h0,~dev_ddr3_wr}),
   .app_en              (dev_ddr3_en),
   .app_wdf_data        (dev_ddr3_wdata),
   .app_wdf_end         (1),
   .app_wdf_mask        (0),
   .app_wdf_wren        (dev_ddr3_wr),
   .app_rd_data         (dev_ddr3_rdata),
   .app_rd_data_end     (1),
   .app_rd_data_valid   (dev_ddr3_rd_data_valid),
   .app_rdy             (dev_ddr3_rdy),
   .app_wdf_rdy         (dev_ddr3_wdf_rdy),
   .app_sr_req          (0),
   .app_ref_req         (0),
   .app_zq_req          (0),
   .app_sr_active       (dev_ddr3_sr_active),
   .app_ref_ack         (dev_ddr3_ref_ack),
   .app_zq_ack          (dev_ddr3_zq_ack),
   .ui_clk              (clk_ddr3_ui),
   .ui_clk_sync_rst     (ui_clk_sync_rst),
   .init_calib_complete (init_calib_complete),
   .device_temp         (device_temp),
   .sys_rst             (nrst)
);

clk_wiz_0 i_clk_wiz_0
(
   .reset             (~nrst),
   .clk_in1           (clk),
   .clk_out1          (sysclk),
   .clk_out2          (sysclk_2x),
   .locked            (locked)
);

[alchitry]

I just ran through making a Au+ project using the DDR and didn't run into your issue.

Below is the project I used (for Alchitry Labs). You will have to create the two Xilinx cores (go to Project->Add Memory Controller to add the MIG core then once that is build, Project->Vivado IP Catalog and create the clk_wiz)

It should build and work then.

https://cdn.alchitry.com/forum/Au%20Plus%20DDR.zip

[howdyrichard]

I just ran through making a Au+ project using the DDR and didn't run into your issue.

Below is the project I used (for Alchitry Labs). You will have to create the two Xilinx cores (go to Project->Add Memory Controller to add the MIG core then once that is build, Project->Vivado IP Catalog and create the clk_wiz)

It should build and work then.

https://cdn.alchitry.com/forum/Au%20Plus%20DDR.zip

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It will not create the Stub file whether I use the above zip or the Au code (same results). I am using Au+. This is the error in Vivado: mig_7series_0_synth_1, Synthesis Out-of-date. Under Chang Log there are 5 errors, netlist.v are and stub.v are two of them. I did fid an article on how to make out of date be ignored but due to upgrades since 2018 I cannot find how to do it.

Any ideas?

[howdyrichard]

Finally got back on this and found that version Vivado version 2020.2 as recommended in the Alchitry site was the problem.  2016.1 works just fine with win10 and creates the 'STUB' file.