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Vivado Design Suite Properties Reference Guide (UG912)

Document ID
UG912
Release Date
2024-11-13
Version
2024.2 English

Description

An interface is a grouping of signals that share a common function, containing both individual signals and multiple buses. An AXI4-Lite master, for example, contains a large number of individual signals plus multiple buses, which are all required to make a connection. By grouping these signals and buses into an interface, the Vivado IP integrator can identify common interfaces and automatically make multiple connections in a single step.

An interface is defined using the IP-XACT standard. Standard interfaces provided by AMD can be found in the Vivado tools installation directory at data/ip/interfaces. See the Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Designing IP Subsystems using IP Integrator (UG994) for more information on interface nets, pins, and ports.

A block design interface pin, or a bd_intf_pin object, is a point of logical connectivity on a block design cell. An interface pin allows the internals of a cell to be abstracted away and simplified for ease-of-use. Interface pins can appear on hierarchical block design cells, or leaf-level cells.

Related Objects

Figure 1. Block Design Interface Pin

A block design interface pin is attached to a block design cell (bd_cell), and can be connected to other interface pins (bd_intf_pin) or interface ports (bd_intf_port) by an interface net (bd_intf_net) in the block design, or diagram.

You can query the bd_intf_pins of bd_addr_space, bd_addr_seg, bd_cell, and bd_intf_net objects:

get_bd_intf_pins -of_objects [get_bd_cells clk_wiz_1]

You can also query the bd_addr_spaces, bd_addr_segs, bd_cells, and bd_intf_nets, of a specific bd_intf_pin:

get_bd_addr_spaces -of_objects [get_bd_intf_pins microblaze_0/*]

Properties

The specific properties on a block design interface pin object can vary depending on the type of the pin. The following table lists some of the properties assigned to a master AXI interface pin object, with example values:

Property	Type	Read-only	Visible	Value
BRIDGES	string	false	false
CLASS	string	true	true	bd_intf_pin
CONFIG.ADDR_WIDTH	string	true	true	32
CONFIG.ARUSER_WIDTH	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.AWUSER_WIDTH	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.BUSER_WIDTH	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.CLK_DOMAIN	string true	true	base_mb_clk_wiz_1_0_clk_out1 
CONFIG.DATA_WIDTH		string	true		true		32
CONFIG.FREQ_HZ	string	true	true	100000000
CONFIG.HAS_BRESP	string	true	true	1
CONFIG.HAS_BURST	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.HAS_CACHE	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.HAS_LOCK	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.HAS_PROT	string	true	true	1
CONFIG.HAS_QOS	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.HAS_REGION	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.HAS_RRESP	string	true	true	1
CONFIG.HAS_WSTRB	string	true	true	1
CONFIG.ID_WIDTH	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.MAX_BURST_LENGTH	string	true	true	1
CONFIG.NUM_READ_OUTSTANDING	string	true	true	1
CONFIG.NUM_READ_THREADS	string	true	true	1
CONFIG.NUM_WRITE_OUTSTANDING	string	true	true	1
CONFIG.NUM_WRITE_THREADS	string	true	true	1
CONFIG.PHASE	string	true	true	0.0
CONFIG.PROTOCOL	string	true	true	AXI4LITE 
CONFIG.READ_WRITE_MODE	string	true	true	READ_WRITE 
CONFIG.RUSER_BITS_PER_BYTE	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.RUSER_WIDTH	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.SUPPORTS_NARROW_BURST	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.WUSER_BITS_PER_BYTE	string	true	true	0
CONFIG.WUSER_WIDTH	string	true	true	0
LOCATION	string	false	true
MODE	string	true	true	Master
NAME	string	false	true	M_AXI_DP
PATH	string	true	true	/microblaze_0/M_AXI_DP
TYPE	string	true	true	ip
VLNV	string	true	true	xilinx.com:interface:aximm_rtl:1.0

To report the properties for the bd_intf_pin object, you can copy and paste the following command into the Vivado Design Suite Tcl shell or Tcl Console:

report_property -all [lindex [get_bd_intf_pins */*] 0]

Or use the following Tcl script to report the properties of each bd_intf_pin object on each block design cell:

foreach x [get_bd_intf_pins -of_objects [get_bd_cells]] { puts "Next Interface Pin starts here
..............................................."
report_property -all $x
}