M_AXI Resources - 2023.2 English

The AXI Master Adapter converts the customized AXI commands from the HLS scheduler to standard AXI AMBA® protocol and sends them to the external memory. The MAXI adapter uses resources such as FIFO to store the requests/Data and ack. Here is the summary of the modules and the resource they consume:

• Write Module: The bus write modules performs the write operations.
  • FIFO_wreq: This FIFO module stores the future write requests. When the AW channel is available a new write request to global memory will be popped out of this FIFO.
  • buff_wdata: This FIFO stores the future write data that needs to be sent to the global memory. When the W channel is available and AXI protocol conditions are met, the write data of size= burst_length will be popped out of this FIFO and sent to the global memory.
  • FIFO_resp: This module is responsible for controlling the number of pipelined write responses sent to the module.
• Read Module: These modules perform the read operations. It uses the following resources
  • FIFO_rreq: This FIFO module stores the future write requests. When the AR channel is free a read request to global memory will be popped out of this FIFO.
  • buff_rdata: This FIFO stores the read data that are received from the global memory.

The device resource consumption of the M_AXI adapter is a sum of all the write modules (size of the FIFO_wreq module, buff_wdata, and size of FIFO_ resp) and the sum of all read modules. In general, the size of the FIFO is calculated as = Width * Depth. When you refer to a 1KB FIFO storage it can be one of the configurations such as 32*32, 8*64 etc, which are selected according to the design specification. Similarly, the adapter FIFO storage can be globally configured for the design using the following configuration commands:

• syn.interface.m_axi_latency
• syn.interface.m_axi_max_read_burst_length/syn.interface.m_axi_max_write_burst_length
• syn.interface.m_axi_num_read_outstanding/syn.interface.m_axi_num_write_outstanding
• syn.interface.m_axi_addr64

These configuration options control the width and depth of the FIFO as shown below.

• Size of the FIFO_wreq/rreq module = (width( syn.interface.m_axi_addr64)) * Depth( syn.interface.m_axi_latency )). This FIFO will be implemented as a shift register by the Vivado tool.

• Size of the buff_wdata/buff_rdata module = (width ( port width after HLS synthesis) * Depth (syn.interface.m_axi_num_write_outstanding * syn.interface.m_axi_max_write_burst_length )).

  Tip: This FIFO by default will be implemented as block RAM, but it can be implemented in LUTRAM or URAM as determined by syn.interface.m_axi_buffer_impl.
• Size of the FIFO_resp module = depth (syn.interface.m_axi_num_write_outstanding).