The LogiCORE™ IP FSL V20 Fast Simplex Link (FSL) Bus is
a uni-directional point-to-point communication channel bus used to perform fast
communication between any two design elements on the FPGA when implementing an
interface to the DO-254 FSL bus. The DO-254 FSL interface is available on the Xilinx® MicroBlaze™ processor. The interfaces are used to transfer data to and from the register file on the
processor to hardware running on the FPGA.
Key features are:
- Implements a uni-directional point to point FIFO-based communication
- Provides a mechanism for unshared and non-arbitrated communication. This can be used for fast transfer of data words between a mster and a slave, thus implementing the FSL interface.
- Provides an extra control bit for annotating transmit data. This bit can be used by the slave-side interface for different purposes, such as decoding the transmit word as a control word, or using the bit to indicate the start or end of frame transmission.
- FIFO depths can be as low as 1K and as high as 8K.
- Supports synchronous and asynchronous FIFO modes. This allows the maste and slave side of the FSL to clock at different rates.
- Support for SRL16 and dual port LUT RAM or block RAM based FIFO implementation.
Documentation
The COTS version v2.11e is the baseline from which the DO-254 Fast Simplex Link (FSL) 1.00a comes from. Logicircuit applies the DO-254 lifecycle to this COTS version. As a result of this DO-254 process, the source code will be modified with the goal of achieving 100% code coverage, and the resulting code will be named DO-254 Fast Simplex Link (FSL) 1.00a. Below are links to the Xilinx® Product Data for the version that was used as the basis, and the Logicircuit Data Sheet of the resulting DO-254 product.
Link to the Xilinx® Product Specification:
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/ip_documentation/fsl_v20/v2_11_e/fsl_v20.pdf
Link to the Logicircuit Data Sheet:
Device Family Support
Xilinx® Artix™-7
Xilinx® Kintex™-7
Xilinx® Virtex™-7
Xilinx® Zynq™-7000
Xilinx® Spartan®-6
