Inferring Clock and Reset Interfaces - 2023.1 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Creating and Packaging Custom IP (UG1118)
Document ID
UG1118
Release Date
2023-05-30
Version
2023.1 English

The Vivado IP packager can automatically infer interfaces for clock and reset signals for your IP. This helps the use of custom IP in the IP integrator for validating clock and reset signals within the block diagram. There is a required nomenclature to properly infer clock and reset interfaces. If the reset signal does not contain the required nomenclature, you can manually create the interface and set the properties accordingly.

Important: The IP packager checks for the ASSOCIATED_BUSIF parameter for all clock interfaces. The reason for the warning is that the IP integrator works best with interfaces, and it expects that the user would typically be using AXI interfaces. If you do not have any bus interfaces in your design, you can safely ignore this warning. For more information on parameters related to clock interfaces, see Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Designing IP Subsystems Using IP Integrator (UG994).

The following list describes how the reset is inferred based upon the naming of the signal.

Note: The [*_] and [_*] are optional and the * matches any text. Also, naming is case-insensitive.
  • [*_]aresetn
  • [*_]axi_resetn
  • [*_]reset[_*]
  • [*_]resetin
  • [*_]resetn
  • [*_]rst
  • [*_]rst_n
  • [*_]rstin
  • [*_]rstn

For reset signals that end with n such as resetn and aresetn, which implies an active-Low signal, the interface automatically sets the polarity parameter to active_Low. This parameter is used in the Vivado IP integrator to determine if the reset is properly connected when the block diagram is generated. For all other reset interfaces, the POLARITY parameter is not set, and is determined through the parameter propagation feature of IP integrator. For more information on parameter propagation and IP integrator, see this link in the Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Designing IP Subsystems Using IP Integrator (UG994).