pre_load_mem_from_file format?

[j1398830]

Hi, according to the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC Verification IP v1.0 documentation, pre_load_mem_from_file will "preload" the DDR memory based on a file. (I assume memory can be "preloaded" at any time, but it's not clear from the documentation...)

But what is not clear to me is what file format the function expects. The documentation says "Only hexadecimal data format is supported.", but any form of detail is omitted. Should it be something like?

FF

4A

etc.? I.e. newlines between each byte? Or something else?

[demarco · Accepted solution]

 Hi @j1398830,

I tried the pre_load_mem_from_file function with values listed in a text file as shown below and was able to populate memory:

805cc000
3e69ad7c
043f5708
f3399ae6
4b915f97
416c4382
24100748
b685c66d
b9d93e73
190cd932
8d31101a
9d78923a
c95e0092
05895b0b

Regards,

Deanna

[j1398830]

Seems to work here too! Thanks! Maybe the documentation could be clarified by saying that there must be a word per line rather than a byte per line (as one would assume as one input parameter is the number of bytes in the file)?

[mtn3325]

Hi,

I know this was long ago but how do you use this API in the system verilog testbench? Thanks.

              pre_load_mem_from_file()

Regards,

Michael