Homework #10

Guidelines

Complete your work on green engineering paper
Staple in upper left if more than one sheet.
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ECE 383 [Your name] HW#10 [Due Date] [Page ref]
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Assignment

Complete the development of the example in Lecture 18.
Modify the lec10 component to include a roll signal that is asserted whenever the counter is at the maximum count value. In order to accomplish this with the generic counter width you may need to create a temporary signal that is equal to the highest count value (see below). Add the roll signal as an output to be displayed just like the count value on the help menu (FYI, If you load a Capital E and then count up you can get to max count). Be prepared to demo your circuit at the beginning of Lesson 19.
```
    maxCount <= (others => '1');
```
Developed Lecture 18 Block Digagram

Note

You will most likely get an error that looks like the following:

'Invoking: MicroBlaze Print Size'
mb-size lab3.elf  |tee "lab3.elf.size"
   text          data           bss           dec           hex       filename
   8100           272          8244         16616          40e8       lab3.elf
'Finished building: lab3.elf.size'

Building target: lec18.elf
Invoking: MicroBlaze gcc linker
mb-gcc -Wl,-T -Wl, bla bla bla  -Wl,--start-group,-lxil,-lgcc,-lc,--end-group
c:/xilinx/14.7/ise_ds/edk/gnu/ bla bla /ld.exe: lec18.elf section `.stack' will not fit in region `microblaze_0_i_bram_ctrl_microblaze_0_d_bram_ctrl'
c:/xilinx/14.7/ise_ds/edk/gnu/ bla bla /ld.exe: region `microblaze_0_i_bram_ctrl_microblaze_0_d_bram_ctrl' overflowed by 80 bytes
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [lec18.elf] Error 1

Look at the MicroBlaze Print Size address editor and you will find that the value under dec (size of your program (instructions + data) in decimal bytes) is the 32k you allocated in Vivado for the microblaze memory. You should be good but potentially you may have to increase the size of the instruction and data memory in Vivado and recompile (see figure below). As you will see in the Print Size output above, I ran into this problem when my program JUST exceeded the 16K I had allocated for it in Vivado.

After you make this change, you will need to increase the stack and heap space inside SDK. Since you already started with 32K you may only have to increase the stack and heap in SDK. To do this, open the linker script (lscript.ld) and then increase the size of your memory to reflect the size entered in Vivado. Finally you can increase the stack and heap sizes to cover that needed in the error message.

Homework #10

Assignment

Developed Lecture 18 Block Digagram

Note