detect_hw_sio_links - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835)

Document ID
UG835
Release Date
2020-11-18
Version
2020.2 English

Automatically detect links between RX and TX endpoints. Create a new link group to contain the links.

Syntax

detect_hw_sio_links [‑force] [‑quiet] [‑verbose]

Returns

A new hardware SIO link group of found links

Usage

Name Description
[-force] Remove all existing links before detecting links
[-quiet] Ignore command errors
[-verbose] Suspend message limits during command execution

Categories

Hardware

Description

Automatically detects existing or previously defined communication pathways between GT transmitters and receivers that are defined on the open hardware target.

You can use this command if you change board connections while the serial I/O analyzer is running. The detection algorithm uses changing transmit patterns and detects links on received patterns to determine how GTs are connected to one another on the open hardware target.

A transmitter or receiver of an individual GT on the IBERT debug core can only be used in one hw_sio_link at a time, so the command will not check GTs that are used in existing links. The -force option lets you clear all existing links before scanning the open hardware target to check all GTs.

The detect_hw_sio_links command defines the found links, and creates a link group to associate the new links.

This command returns the number of links found and the created hw_sio_linkgroup object, or returns an error if it fails.

Arguments

-force - (Optional) Delete existing link objects and re-detect links by examining all GTs to ensure the current hardware configuration is properly reflected in the link definitions.

-quiet - (Optional) Execute the command quietly, returning no messages from the command. The command also returns TCL_OK regardless of any errors encountered during execution.
Note: Any errors encountered on the command-line, while launching the command, will be returned. Only errors occurring inside the command will be trapped.
-verbose - (Optional) Temporarily override any message limits and return all messages from this command.
Note: Message limits can be defined with the set_msg_config command.

Example

The following example examines the IBERT debug core on the open hardware target to look for existing communication links:
detect_hw_sio_links 
Note: Without the -force option, GTs used in existing links will not be examined.