For most of the ADCs that use JESD204 as the data transport the digitial
interface is very similar. They are mainly differentiated by number of
JESD204 lanes, number of converter channels and number of bits per sample.
Currently for each supported converter there exists a converter specific
core which has the converter specific requirements hard-coded.
Introduce a new generic core that has the number of lanes, number of
channels and bits per sample as synthesis-time configurable parameters. It
can be used as a drop-in replacement for the existing converter specific
cores.
This has the advantage of a shared and reduced code base. Code improvements
will automatically be available for all converters and don't have to be
manually ported to each core individually.
It also makes it very easy to introduce support for new converters that
follow the existing schema.
Since the JESD204 deframer is now procedurally generated it is also very
easy to support board or application specific requirements where the lane
to converter ratio differs from the default (E.g. use 2 lanes/2 converters
instead of 4 lanes/2 converters).
This new core is primarily based on the existing axi_ad9680.
For the time being the core is not user instantiatable and will only be
used as a based to re-implement the converter specific cores. It will be
extended in the future to allow user instantiation.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
AndreiGrozav
Istvan Csomortani
Lars-Peter Clausen