Re: Connect SPI Flash ROM to MicroBlaze

yildiz.a · ‎03-21-2011

Hi,

Is there a good tutorial for how to connect SPI Flash ROM and MicroBlaze?

Thank you.

abdullah

eteam00 · ‎03-21-2011

You have two choices for interfacing to SPI flash ROM:

1. MicroBlaze bit-bang

2. Conventional HW SPI interface, with byte-level or word-level interface to MicroBlaze.

If you really want to go the bit-bang route, just search for "SPI PicoBlaze". One of the XAPP reference designs for Picoblaze is a bit-bang SPI interface.

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bhfletcher · ‎03-22-2011

Do you have a development board? Base System Builder will connect a SPI Flash for you. I suspect any dev. board with SPI Flash will show you how in the Intro to MicroBlaze tutorial for that board.

Bryan

yildiz.a · ‎03-22-2011

I use Digilent Atlys board. I couldn't see any tutorial so far.

Thanks.

abdullah

serge.kubera@ehb.be · ‎03-22-2011

Hi,

I would run the Atlys reference design provided on the digilent website (to use under XPS 12.x). In that way you are already sure to have to good system assembly. (probably you might want delete the TEMAC instance and all its ports in the UCF file... if you dont have the license for TEMAC).

I also saw that digilent uses their own IP core for the SPI and there is also a small code that added that will test the SPI ... so this should work out OK I think.

Serge

bassman59 · ‎03-22-2011

@yildiz.a wrote:

I use Digilent Atlys board. I couldn't see any tutorial so far.

Thanks.

Do you want to use the SPI memory as general-purpose data storage, or for the micro's program?

----------------------------Yes, I do this for a living.

yildiz.a · ‎03-22-2011

@bassman59 wrote:

@yildiz.a wrote:

I use Digilent Atlys board. I couldn't see any tutorial so far.

Thanks.

Do you want to use the SPI memory as general-purpose data storage, or for the micro's program?

As a first step, I want to learn how to do general-purpose data transfer, then I want my code to run from SPI flash memory.

Thank you.

abdullah