Evaluation Platforms
Recommended Hardware
sliceKIT
This module may be evaluated using the sliceKIT Modular Development Platform, available from digikey. Required board SKUs are:
- XP-SKC-L2 (sliceKIT L16 Core Board) plus XA-SK-SDRAM plus XA-SK-XTAG2 (sliceKIT XTAG adaptor)
Demonstration Applications
Testbench Application
This application serves as a software regression to aid implementing new SDRAM interfaces and verifying current ones. The testbench runs a series of regression tests of increasing difficulty, beginning from using a single core for the server and a single core for the sdram_server progressing to all cores being loaded to simulate an xCORE under full load.
- Package: sc_sdram_burst
- Application: app_sdram_testbench
Benchmark Application
This application benchmarks the performance of the module. It does no correctness testing but instead tests the throughput of the SDRAM server.
- Package: sc_sdram_burst
- Application: app_sdram_benchmark
Demo Application
This application demonstrates how the module is used to access memory on the SDRAM.
- Package: sc_sdram_burst
- Application: app_sdram_demo
Display Controller Application
This combination demo employs this module along with the module_lcd LCD driver and the ``module_display_controller’’ framebuffer framework component to implement a 480x272 display controller.
Required board SKUs for this demo are:
- XP-SKC-L2 (sliceKIT L16 Core Board) plus XA-SK-SDRAM plus XA-SK-LCD480 plus XA-SK-XTAG2 (sliceKIT XTAG adaptor)
- Package: sw_display_controller
- Application: app_graphics_demo