Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™: Stratix® V Network Reference Platform Porting Guide

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Date 11/06/2017
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3.2.1. DDR3 IP Instantiation

The Stratix® V Network Reference Platform uses two DDR3 controllers with UniPHY IP to communicate with the physical memories.
Table 7.  DDR3 SDRAM Controller with UniPHY IP Configuration Settings
IP Parameter Configuration Setting
Timing Parameters As per the computing card's data specifications.
Phase-locked loop (PLL)/delay-locked loop (DLL) Sharing s5_net is configured such that both memory controllers can share the same PLL and DLL.
Avalon® Width Power of 2 Currently, OpenCL™ does not support non-power-of-2 bus widths. As a result, s5_net uses the option that forces the DDR3 controller to power of 2. Use the additional pins of this x72 core for error checking between the memory controller and the physical module.
Byte Enable Support OpenCL™ requires byte-level granularity to all memories; therefore, byte-enable support is necessary in the core.
Performance Enabling reordering and a deeper command queue look-ahead depth might provide increased bandwidth for some OpenCL kernels. For a target application, adjust these and other parameters as necessary.
Debug Debug is disabled for production.

After you instantiate the UniPHY IP, you typically need to run the <variation_name>_pin_assignments.tcl Tcl script to add additional constraints to the Intel® Quartus® Prime project. For more information on this process, refer to the Adding Pins and DQ Group Assignments section in Volume 2 of the External Memory Interface Handbook.