
Data Sheet
November, 2002
Lattice Semiconductor
67
ORCA
Series 4 FPGAs
FPGA Con
fi
guration Modes
(continued)
Note: M3 = GND for high-speed CCLK; M3 = V
DD
for low-frequency CCLK.
5-4456(F).a
Figure 39. Master Serial Con
fi
guration Schematic
DIN
M2
M1
M0
ORCA
SERIES
FPGA
CCLK
DOUT
TO DAISY-
CHAINED
DEVICES
DATA
CLK
CE
CEO
DATA
CLK
RESET/OE
CEO
CE
TO MORE
SERIAL ROMs
AS NEEDED
DONE
PRGM
PROGRAM
RESET/OE
Asynchronous Peripheral Mode
Figure 40 shows the connections needed for the asyn-
chronous peripheral mode. In this mode, the FPGA
system interface is similar to that of a microprocessor-
peripheral interface. The microprocessor generates the
control signals to write an 8-bit byte into the FPGA. The
FPGA control inputs include active-low
CS0
and active-
high CS1 chip selects and
WR
and
RD
inputs. The chip
selects can be cycled or maintained at a static level
during the con
fi
guration cycle. Each byte of data is writ-
ten into the FPGA’s D[7:0] input pins. D[7:0] of the
FPGA can be connected to D[7:0] of the microproces-
sor only if a standard prom
fi
le format is used. If a .bit
or .rbt
fi
le is used from ispLEVER, then the user must
mirror the bytes in the .bit or .rbt
fi
le OR leave the .bit or
.rbt
fi
le unchanged and connect D[7:0] of the FPGA to
D[0:7] of the microprocessor.
The FPGA provides an RDY/
BUSY
status output to indi-
cate that another byte can be loaded. A low on RDY/
BUSY
indicates that the double-buffered hold/shift reg-
isters are not ready to receive data, and this pin must
be monitored to go high before another byte of data
can be written. The shortest time RDY/
BUSY
is low
occurs when a byte is loaded into the hold register and
the shift register is empty, in which case the byte is
immediately transferred to the shift register. The long-
est time for RDY/
BUSY
to remain low occurs when a
byte is loaded into the holding register and the shift
register has just started shifting con
fi
guration data into
con
fi
guration RAM.
The RDY/
BUSY
status is also available on the D7 pin by
enabling the chip selects, setting
WR
high, and apply-
ing
RD
low, where the
RD
input provides an output
enable for the D[7:3] when
RD
is low. The D[2:0] pins
are not enabled to drive when
RD
is low and, therefore,
only act as input pins in asynchronous peripheral
mode. Optionally, the user can ignore the RDY/
BUSY
status and simply wait until the maximum time it would
take for the RDY/
BUSY
line to go high, indicating the
FPGA is ready for more data, before writing the next
data byte.
The following signals are also available on D[6:3] when
WR
is high and
RD
is low:
■
D[6:5] is a 2-bit con
fi
guration bitstream error descrip-
tion
fl
ag: 00= no error, 01 = ID error, 10 = checksum
error, 11 = stop bit/frame alignment error.
■
D[4:3] is a 2-bit system bus error
fl
ag: 00 = no error,
01 = one error occurred, 11 = multiple errors
occurred.
One FPGA in asynchronous peripheral mode can pro-
vide con
fi
guration data out on DOUT to additional
FPGAs in a daisy-chain con
fi
guration. The con
fi
gura-
tion data on DOUT is provided synchronously with the
rising edge of CCLK.