Hi @RichardV, I'm just working on this board and on a design that have:
- MicroBlaze
- UART Lite
-Interrupt controller connected to the MicroBlaze in order to handle the UART by interrupt
- Some GPIO input and output managed from the MicroBlaze
- Some RTL logic written in VHDL with some line interfaced to GPIO of the MicroBlaze
This design will act as a base to start in developing with MicroBlaze and this very nice evaluation board from Digilent.
Actually I've written a post on some things about this design, if you like we can work together to write a full tuturial, step by step, I hink that can be useful for better understand how to proceed and give a general starting point for other design.
Post link: my post link
Cheers!
Hi @RichardV
Could you clarify what you mean by "the QSPI port"?
You can create your own SPI controller and have it use any of the Cmod's IO pins - constraining the pins with an XDC instead of through the board files. The AXI QSPI IP can similarly be connected to various external pins, on the Pmod port, breadboard connector, pretty much wherever (but should be used with a Microblaze processor). You can configure the AXI QSPI to work in standard SPI mode (SPI Options: Mode = Standard instead of Quad).
Thanks,
Arthur
