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FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Marcel D. (diablokiller999)

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Hi guys!
I've written another IIR implementation after Directform 1 to implement 
a high pass filter in my current design, the IIR will be combined with a 
CIC that downsamples the sampling rate from 10MHz to ~79KHz. My filter 
coefficients for the IIR are as follows:

> A1 = -1,93178
> A2 = 0,93403
> B0 = 0,96645
> B1 = -1,93291
> B2 = 0,96645

The coefficients are scaled by 2^30 and then divided by this value after 
the multiplication. My implementation works with 4 guard bits, as you 
can see Idle-State for nX0.

Although my simulation looks OK (to me), it doesn't work in the real 
FPGA so frequencies below 1KHz are still in the signal. How do I 
properly test my IIR and is there maybe something I'm missing in my 
implementation?

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Bernhard K. (bkom)

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maybe I don't see it but somehow I miss a statement like:
 "if rising_edge(iclk) then" or " wait until rising_edge(iclk);"
 in your VHDL...

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process(iCLK,iRESET_N)

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begin

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    if(iRESET_N = '0') then

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        nZX0                <= (others => '0');

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        nZX1                <= (others => '0');

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        nZX2                <= (others => '0');

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  (...)

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        nYOUT               <= (others => '0');

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    else

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//-->>>  e.g.: if rising_edge(iclk) then

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        case state is


examples here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32717040/wait-until-rising-edgeclk-vs-if-rising-edgeclk

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Marcel D. (diablokiller999)

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Bernhard K. wrote:
> maybe I don't see it but somehow I miss a statement like:
>  "if rising_edge(iclk) then" or " wait until rising_edge(iclk);"
>  in your VHDL...

Holy crap you're right!
Some code-blindness >_>
I'll compile again and report if this was my (really) stupid mistake :D

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Marcel D. (diablokiller999)

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So I've implemented the clocked version :D
I did a test on the filter via an 1V amplitude and a frequency sweep 
from 0 to 3000Hz. It seems to filter a bit, but not nearly as good as 
I've simulated.
It looks that I'm missing something, the curve looks like I'm on track 
but is my division flawed at some point?

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Thomas R. (Company: abaxor engineering) (abaxor)

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Hi,

1. You should sum up the multiplication results and not the truncated 
multiplication results. Using the truncated values will increase 
rounding noise.

2. probably this line will lead to a timing violation:
  nYOUT      <= 
std_logic_vector(signed(nDX0)+signed(nDX1)+signed(nDX2)-signed(nDY1)-sig 
ned(nDY2));


Tom

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Marcel D. (diablokiller999)

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> 1. You should sum up the multiplication results and not the truncated
> multiplication results. Using the truncated values will increase
> rounding noise.

Done, values are a bit different and simulation looks ok, the curve 
looks identical. Will try this in my FPGA, new code and testbench are 
added if someone wants a closer look.

> 2. probably this line will lead to a timing violation:
>   nYOUT      <=
> std_logic_vector(signed(nDX0)+signed(nDX1)+signed(nDX2)-signed(nDY1)-sig 
ned(nDY2));

According to Quartus it seems OK though, no timing problems mentioned by 
TimeQuest.

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Marcel D. (diablokiller999)

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So far I've made two versions of the IIR, one is more async 
(IIR_Biquad_II.vhd) and one uses a state machine (IIRDF1.vhd). The more 
async one was derived from a project on the internet and it seems to 
work as a high pass (but gives a weird curve as low pass). I've 
implemented both in the FPGA and the async gives a really nice curve, 
while the one with the state machine has some weird effects. Can someone 
tell me why this is? I really have no clue what should cause this :-/

By the way, my own state machine implementation works fairly well as a 
low pass, as you can see on the picture with the two additional signals 
(2nd and 4th order LP).

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Martin O. (Guest)

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"it seems to work as a high pass (but gives a weird curve as low pass)"

As I did before I would recommend that you implement a testbench to 
check every bit of the computation  and compare it for example with an 
implementation in lua, java or what so ever. If everything is checked in 
that way there will be no more "It seems". It's a little bit of work for 
the first filter, but you will easily check other filters afterwards.

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Marcel D. (diablokiller999)

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Martin O. wrote:
> "it seems to work as a high pass (but gives a weird curve as low pass)"
>
> As I did before I would recommend that you implement a testbench to
> check every bit of the computation  and compare it for example with an
> implementation in lua, java or what so ever.

That's what I did, the values look quite nice though and it behaves like 
a filter should do (from my understanding).

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63336.30075     -126673.25685   63336.30075     -126599.2023    61211.65605     nil

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K=      0       Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85901

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K=      1       Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      2       Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      3       Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      4       Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      6       Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      7       Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      9       Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      10      Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      11      Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      12      Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      14      Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      19      Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      20      Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      21      Input=  0       Output= -6

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K=      22      Input=  0       Output= -1

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K=      23      Input=  0       Output= -1

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K=      24      Input=  0       Output= -1

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K=      25      Input=  0       Output= -1

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K=      41      Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      42      Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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K=      43      Input=  140737488355328 Output= -85906

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Marcel D. (diablokiller999)

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So I did a new VHDL Testbench and my simulation shows that both 
implementations are not as equal as I've thought with the jumps as test 
values. I'm using a DDS with 100KHz and full amplitude as Input. As you 
can see in the picture, the DF1 has kind of a sign in it, which should 
explain the behaviour of the filter. Now I need to find out why this is 
:-/

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Martin O. (Guest)

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It's probably not sufficient to qualitatively compare output values.
I know it's a pain, but sometimes it's the only cure: Compare every bit 
of every arithmetic operation and variable for some (initial) steps.

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Re: FPGA IIR Filter and High Pass
von Martin O. (Guest)

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It seems that an overflow is happening in the simulation, since the most
negative part of the sine is folded to a positive value.

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module biquad1

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#(

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   parameter coeffWidth = 1,

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   parameter productWidth = 1,

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   parameter sig1Width = 1 

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)

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(

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   output wire       [sig1Width-1: 0]  IIRoutput_o ,

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   input                                IIRclk_i ,

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   input wire                           modeReset_i ,

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   input wire  signed [sig1Width-1: 0]  IIRinput_i  ,

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   input wire  signed [coeffWidth-1: 0] b0_i ,

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   input wire  signed [coeffWidth-1: 0] b1_i ,

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   input wire  signed [coeffWidth-1: 0] b2_i ,

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   input wire  signed [coeffWidth-1: 0] NEGa1_i ,

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   input wire  signed [coeffWidth-1: 0] NEGa2_i       

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);

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] s1 ;

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] s2 ;

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wire signed [sig1Width-1: 0] vk ;

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] vkReg ;

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] xk ;

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] v1 ;

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] v2 ;

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] ykReg ;

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wire signed [productWidth-1: 0] productB0;

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wire signed [productWidth-1: 0] productB1 ;

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wire signed [productWidth-1: 0] productB2 ;

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wire signed [productWidth-1: 0] productA1;

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wire signed [productWidth-1: 0] productA2 ;

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assign vk = IIRinput_i+s1 ;

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assign productA2 = NEGa2_i*vk ;

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assign productA1 = NEGa1_i*vk ;

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assign productB0 = b0_i*vkReg ;

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assign productB1 = b1_i*vkReg ;

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assign productB2 = b2_i*vkReg ;

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wire sampleStrobe ;

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assign sampleStrobe  = 1 ;

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assign  IIRoutput_o = ykReg ;

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always @(posedge  IIRclk_i ) begin

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  if ( sampleStrobe ) begin

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    xk <= IIRinput_i  ;

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    if ( modeReset_i ) begin

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      s1<=25'h0 ;

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      s2<=25'h0 ;

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      v1<=25'h0 ;

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      v2<=25'h0 ;

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      vkReg <= 0 ;

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      ykReg <= 0 ;      

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      end

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     else begin   

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      s1<=s2+  productA1[25-1+16:0+16] ;

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      s2<=     productA2[25-1+16:0+16] ;

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      v1<=v2 + productB1[25-1+16:0+16]  ;

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      v2<=     productB2[25-1+16:0+16] ;

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      ykReg <= v1 + productB0[25-1+16:0+16] ;

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      end

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    end

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  end

So sieht meine IIR-Biquad Berechnung in Verilog aus. Mi jedem Takt wird 
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Did something like that before, this is still directform 1 with just 
some async calculations and the filter curves look the same as with my 
state machine implementation. Maybe I'll try your implementation of the 
DF2, but as far as I can see there is no overflow in the registers, even 
with 8 guard bits there seems to be no issue. Can you provide a proper 
testbench for your filter?

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LIBRARY ieee;

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USE ieee.std_logic_1164.ALL;

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use ieee.NUMERIC_STD.ALL;   

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use ieee.std_logic_signed.all;

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entity IIRDF1 is

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    generic (

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        INPUT_WIDTH : integer := 64;

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        QFORMAT    : integer := 30;  

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        B0 : integer := 409494;  

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        B1 : integer := 818988;  

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        B2 : integer := 409494;  

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        A1 : integer := -3954428; 

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        A2 : integer := 1398100  

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        );

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    port (

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        iCLK            : in std_logic;

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        iRESET_N        : in std_logic;

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        inewValue       : in std_logic;                                 -- indicates a new input value

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        iIIR_RX         : in std_logic_vector (INPUT_WIDTH-1 downto 0); -- singed is expected

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        oDone           : out std_logic;                                -- Done Flag for next Filter

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        oIIR_TX         : out std_logic_vector (INPUT_WIDTH-1 downto 0)-- Output

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        );

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end entity IIRDF1;

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architecture BEH_FixCoefficientIIR of IIRDF1 is

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constant cA1 : signed(QFORMAT+1 downto 0)  := to_signed(A1,QFORMAT+2);-- A1

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constant cA2 : signed(QFORMAT+1 downto 0)  := to_signed(A2,QFORMAT+2);-- A2

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constant cB0 : signed(QFORMAT+1 downto 0)  := to_signed(B0,QFORMAT+2);-- B1

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constant cB1 : signed(QFORMAT+1 downto 0)  := to_signed(B1,QFORMAT+2);-- B1

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constant cB2 : signed(QFORMAT+1 downto 0)  := to_signed(B2,QFORMAT+2);-- B1

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signal productA1,productA2,productB1,productB2,productB0 : std_logic_vector(INPUT_WIDTH+1+QFORMAT+2 downto 0) := (others => '0');

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signal nZX0,nZX1,nZX2,nZY1,nZY2 : std_logic_vector(INPUT_WIDTH+1 downto 0) := (others => '0');

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begin

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productB0 <= std_logic_vector(cB0 * signed(nZX0));

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productB1 <= std_logic_vector(cB1 * signed(nZX1));

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productB2 <= std_logic_vector(cB2 * signed(nZX2));

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productA1 <= std_logic_vector(cA1 * signed(nZY1));

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productA2 <= std_logic_vector(cA2 * signed(nZY2));

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process(iCLK,iRESET_N)

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begin

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    if(rising_edge(iCLK)) then

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            nZX0                <= (others => '0');

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            nZX1                <= (others => '0');

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            nZX2                <= (others => '0');

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            nZY1                <= (others => '0');

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            nZY2                <= (others => '0');

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                nZX0            <= iIIR_RX(iIIR_RX'left) & iIIR_RX(iIIR_RX'left) & iIIR_RX;

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                nZX1            <= nZX0;

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                nZX2            <= nZX1;

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                nZY1            <= productB0(productB0'left-2 downto QFORMAT)+productB1(productB1'left-2 downto QFORMAT)+productB2(productB2'left-2 downto QFORMAT)-productA1(productA1'left-2 downto QFORMAT)-productA2(productA2'left-2 downto QFORMAT);

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                oIIR_TX         <= productB0(productB0'left-4 downto QFORMAT)+productB1(productB1'left-4 downto QFORMAT)+productB2(productB2'left-4 downto QFORMAT)-productA1(productA1'left-4 downto QFORMAT)-productA2(productA2'left-4 downto QFORMAT);

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    end if;

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end process;

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So sieht meine Testbench aus. Die Koeffizienten sind besonders einfach
und ich teste damit die grundlegende Arithmetik. Ob Überläufe 
stattfinden teste ich immer am echten Objekt. Das theoretisch im 
Vorhinein zu machen ist für mich schwierig, weil ich nicht weiss, welche 
Eingangssequenz die "gefährlichste" ist.

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module IIR1_tb;

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reg TBclk ;

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parameter tck = 10; ///< clock tick

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always #(tck/2) TBclk <= ~TBclk; // clocking device

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integer fd ;

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parameter productWidth = 42 ;

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parameter coeffWidth = 18 ;

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parameter sig1Width = 25 ;

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] IIR1inPrepare ;

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] IIR1in ;

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wire signed [sig1Width-1: 0] IIR1out ;

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reg [ 32-1: 0] debug1 ;

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wire sampleStrobe ;

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assign sampleStrobe  = 1 ;

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reg [ 8-1: 0] timer ;

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always @(posedge TBclk) begin

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  if ( sampleStrobe ) begin

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    IIR1in  <=  IIR1inPrepare ;

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    debug1 <= IIR1out ;

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  timer <= timer+1 ;

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    end

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  end

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reg signed [coeffWidth-1: 0] IIR1b0 ;

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reg signed [coeffWidth-1: 0] IIR1b1 ;

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reg signed [coeffWidth-1: 0] IIR1b2 ;

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reg signed [coeffWidth-1: 0] IIR1a1 ;

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reg signed [coeffWidth-1: 0] IIR1a2 ;       

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reg modeReset ;

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red_pitaya_asg_biquad1  

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#(

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  .coeffWidth ( coeffWidth ),

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  .productWidth (productWidth),

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  .sig1Width (sig1Width )

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) biquadModule1

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( .IIRoutput_o ( IIR1out   ) ,

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  .IIRclk_i    ( TBclk ) ,

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  .modeReset_i ( modeReset ) ,  

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  .IIRinput_i  ( IIR1in    ) ,

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  .b0_i        ( IIR1b0    ) ,

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  .b1_i        ( IIR1b1    ) ,

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  .b2_i        ( IIR1b2    ) ,

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  .a1_i        ( IIR1a1    ) ,

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  .a2_i        ( IIR1a2    )

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) ;      

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/*

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always @(posedge TBclk) begin

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   $fwrite(fd, "TBdout1=%3d TBdout2=%3d TBrst1=%1d TBrst2=%1d\n",

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       TBdout1,TBdout2,TBrst1,TBrst2) ;

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*/

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initial begin

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    fd = $fopen("output.txt", "w");

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  $dumpfile("test1.vcd");

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  $dumpvars(-1, IIR1_tb);

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  $monitor("%d in=%10d out=%10d ",timer, IIR1in ,IIR1out );

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  //$monitor("%d in=%10d vk=%10d vkReg=%10d",timer, IIR1in ,vk,vkReg );

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end

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] in1 ;

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] in2 ;

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reg  signed [sig1Width-1: 0] in3 ;

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always @(posedge TBclk) begin

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  in1<=IIR1in ;

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  in2<=in1 ;

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always @(posedge TBclk) begin

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real rho ;

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real cosphi ;

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// testbench actions

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initial begin

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  timer=0 ;

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 // IIR1b0=1<<16 ;  // 1.0

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 // IIR1b1=( 0) ;

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 // IIR1b2=( 0)  ;

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  IIR1b0=1<<16 ;  // 1.0

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  IIR1b1=(  (1.0)*(2**16)) ;

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  IIR1b2=( -(0.5)*(2**16))  ;

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//  cosphi=-0.5 ;

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//  IIR1a1= ((-2*cosphi*rho)*(2**16)) ;  

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//  IIR1a2= ((rho*rho)*(2**16)) ;  

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  IIR1a1= ((-1.0)*(2**16)) ;  // cos phi=sqrt(2)/2

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  #(tck);  modeReset = 1;

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  repeat(5) @(posedge TBclk);

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   @(negedge TBclk);

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 // IIR1in <= (1<<23) ;

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   IIR1inPrepare <= (1600000) ;

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   @(negedge TBclk);

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 IIR1inPrepare  <= 0 ;

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  repeat(50) @(posedge TBclk);

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  $fclose(fd);

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  $finish;

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end

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endmodule


  


  




  

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