Hi,

to reduce the resource requirements of my design I consider the use of DP. I wrote the FSM in pure verilog without DP components and the PSoC is up to 98% full.

Anyway, the idea is to load a timer by using a verilog hardware period register (which is written by another verilog instance). The common approch of the DP Video Tutorials AN 21{1-4} is to use CPU registers to load the period into e.g. D1 or even F1. Now I need to load it from PI port of cy_psoc3_dp (which offers the possibility to do this). But I can't use it for comparision usage since the condition signals generator by the DP is limited to the internal registers A{0,1} or D{0,1}. Further more it seems that I can't load the external register value to a fifo register Fx and than load it to an Dx register since there is no parallel port in.

To be short: How can I configure the DP for an external period register - e.g. the 16-bit PWM example with verilog limit and period register?

Thanks

OK, I'm some steps further.

oops, I miss the edit button. Anyway.

The first shoot above shows the Symbol I want to implement using DP (with Testbench). The goal is to have the count value on port; not at any CPU register. These pic attached below show the Modelsim simulatiom. The problem is the wrong 'unspecified' signals of  ff0 and z0. Due to this the cs_addr get wrong the whole design can't work. Any ideas what gone wrong? Maybe/Probably I misconfigured the DP ? Are there rule of thumb to debug DP elements? I use the presynthesis DP implementation here.

assign cs_addr_w[2:0] = { 1'b0, count_enable_w, reload_w };

   parameter dpconfig0 =
                        {
                         `CS_ALU_OP_PASS, `CS_SRCA_A0, `CS_SRCB_D0,
                         `CS_SHFT_OP_PASS, `CS_A0_SRC_NONE, `CS_A1_SRC_NONE,
                         `CS_FEEDBACK_DSBL, `CS_CI_SEL_CFGA, `CS_SI_SEL_CFGA,
                         `CS_CMP_SEL_CFGA, /*CFGRAM0: Idle*/
                         `CS_ALU_OP_PASS, `CS_SRCA_A0, `CS_SRCB_D0,
                         `CS_SHFT_OP_PASS, `CS_A0_SRC___D0, `CS_A1_SRC_NONE,
                         `CS_FEEDBACK_DSBL, `CS_CI_SEL_CFGA, `CS_SI_SEL_CFGA,
                         `CS_CMP_SEL_CFGA, /*CFGRAM1: Reload Period (A0 <= D0)*/
                         `CS_ALU_OP__INC, `CS_SRCA_A0, `CS_SRCB_D0,
                         `CS_SHFT_OP_PASS, `CS_A0_SRC__ALU, `CS_A1_SRC_NONE,
                         `CS_FEEDBACK_DSBL, `CS_CI_SEL_CFGA, `CS_SI_SEL_CFGA,
                         `CS_CMP_SEL_CFGA, /*CFGRAM2: Increment A0 (A0 <=A0 + 1)*/
                         `CS_ALU_OP_PASS, `CS_SRCA_A0, `CS_SRCB_D0,
                         `CS_SHFT_OP_PASS, `CS_A0_SRC_NONE, `CS_A1_SRC_NONE,
                         `CS_FEEDBACK_DSBL, `CS_CI_SEL_CFGA, `CS_SI_SEL_CFGA,
                         `CS_CMP_SEL_CFGA, /*CFGRAM3: UNUSED*/
                         `CS_ALU_OP_PASS, `CS_SRCA_A0, `CS_SRCB_D0,
                         `CS_SHFT_OP_PASS, `CS_A0_SRC_NONE, `CS_A1_SRC_NONE,
                         `CS_FEEDBACK_DSBL, `CS_CI_SEL_CFGA, `CS_SI_SEL_CFGA,
                         `CS_CMP_SEL_CFGA, /*CFGRAM4: UNUSED*/
                         `CS_ALU_OP_PASS, `CS_SRCA_A0, `CS_SRCB_D0,
                         `CS_SHFT_OP_PASS, `CS_A0_SRC_NONE, `CS_A1_SRC_NONE,
                         `CS_FEEDBACK_DSBL, `CS_CI_SEL_CFGA, `CS_SI_SEL_CFGA,
                         `CS_CMP_SEL_CFGA, /*CFGRAM5: UNUSED*/
                         `CS_ALU_OP_PASS, `CS_SRCA_A0, `CS_SRCB_D0,
                         `CS_SHFT_OP_PASS, `CS_A0_SRC_NONE, `CS_A1_SRC_NONE,
                         `CS_FEEDBACK_DSBL, `CS_CI_SEL_CFGA, `CS_SI_SEL_CFGA,
                         `CS_CMP_SEL_CFGA, /*CFGRAM6: UNUSED*/
                         `CS_ALU_OP_PASS, `CS_SRCA_A0, `CS_SRCB_D0,
                         `CS_SHFT_OP_PASS, `CS_A0_SRC_NONE, `CS_A1_SRC_NONE,
                         `CS_FEEDBACK_DSBL, `CS_CI_SEL_CFGA, `CS_SI_SEL_CFGA,
                         `CS_CMP_SEL_CFGA, /*CFGRAM7: UNUSED*/
                         8'hFF, 8'h00,  /*CFG9:  */
                         8'hFF, 8'hFF,  /*CFG11-10:  */
                         `SC_CMPB_A1_D1, `SC_CMPA_A1_D1, `SC_CI_B_ARITH,
                         `SC_CI_A_ARITH, `SC_C1_MASK_DSBL, `SC_C0_MASK_DSBL,
                         `SC_A_MASK_DSBL, `SC_DEF_SI_0, `SC_SI_B_DEFSI,
                         `SC_SI_A_DEFSI, /*CFG13-12:  */
                         `SC_A0_SRC_ACC, `SC_SHIFT_SL, 1'h0,
                         1'h0, `SC_FIFO1_BUS, `SC_FIFO0_BUS,
                         `SC_MSB_DSBL, `SC_MSB_BIT0, `SC_MSB_NOCHN,
                         `SC_FB_NOCHN, `SC_CMP1_NOCHN,
                         `SC_CMP0_NOCHN, /*CFG15-14:  */
                         10'h00, `SC_FIFO_CLK__DP,`SC_FIFO_CAP_AX,
                         `SC_FIFO_LEVEL,`SC_FIFO__SYNC,`SC_EXTCRC_DSBL,
                         `SC_WRK16CAT_DSBL /*CFG17-16:  */
                         };
 

   cy_psoc3_dp #(
                 .a0_init(00),
                 .a1_init(00),
                 .d0_init(08),
                 .d1_init(00),
                 .cy_dpconfig(dpconfig0))
   U0(
      /*  input                   */  .reset(reset),
      /*  input                   */  .clk(clock_w),
      /*  input   [02:00]         */  .cs_addr(cs_addr_w),
      /*  input                   */  .route_si(1'b0),
      /*  input                   */  .route_ci(1'b0),
      /*  input                   */  .f0_load(1'b0),
      /*  input                   */  .f1_load(1'b0),
      /*  input                   */  .d0_load(1'b0),
      /*  input                   */  .d1_load(1'b0),
      /*  output                  */  .ce0(),
      /*  output                  */  .cl0(),
      /*  output                  */  .z0(dp_z0_w),
      /*  output                  */  .ff0(dp_ff0_w),
      /*  output                  */  .ce1(),
      /*  output                  */  .cl1(),
      /*  output                  */  .z1(),
      /*  output                  */  .ff1(),
      /*  output                  */  .ov_msb(),
      /*  output                  */  .co_msb(),
      /*  output                  */  .cmsb(),
      /*  output                  */  .so(),
      /*  output                  */  .f0_bus_stat(),
      /*  output                  */  .f0_blk_stat(),
      /*  output                  */  .f1_bus_stat(),
      /*  output                  */  .f1_blk_stat(),
     
      /* input                    */  .ci(1'b0),     // Carry in from previous stage
      /* output                   */  .co(dp_co_w),  // Carry out to next stage
      /* input                    */  .sir(1'b0),    // Shift in from right side
      /* output                   */  .sor(),        // Shift out to right side
      /* input                    */  .sil(1'b0),    // Shift in from left side
      /* output                   */  .sol(),        // Shift out to left side
      /* input                    */  .msbi(1'b0),   // MSB chain in
      /* output                   */  .msbo(),       // MSB chain out
      /* input [01:00]            */  .cei(2'b0),    // Compare equal in from prev stage
      /* output [01:00]           */  .ceo(),        // Compare equal out to next stage
      /* input [01:00]            */  .cli(2'b0),    // Compare less than in from prv stage
      /* output [01:00]           */  .clo(),        // Compare less than out to next stage
      /* input [01:00]            */  .zi(2'b0),     // Zero detect in from previous stage
      /* output [01:00]           */  .zo(),         // Zero detect out to next stage
      /* input [01:00]            */  .fi(2'b0),     // 0xFF detect in from previous stage
      /* output [01:00]           */  .fo(),         // 0xFF detect out to next stage
      /* input [01:00]            */  .capi(2'b0),   // Software capture from previous stage
      /* output [01:00]           */  .capo(),       // Software capture to next stage
      /* input                    */  .cfbi(1'b0),   // CRC Feedback in from previous stage
      /* output                   */  .cfbo(),       // CRC Feedback out to next stage
      /* input [07:00]            */  .pi(8'b0),     // Parallel data port
      /* output [07:00]           */  .po(dp_po_lsb_w) // Parallel data port
      );
 

MSB of cs_addr was wrong ...