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Sink Calendar Initialization

There are two ways to initialize the Sink Calendar: by loading a COE file in the CORE Generator GUI or initializing in-circuit at startup. Using the Generator GUI loads the Calendar contents into the UCF file. For more information, see Chapter 3, “Generating the Core.”

Initializing the Calendar In-Circuit

At startup, the Sink Calendar buffer can be programmed by first deasserting Sink Enable (SnkEn), then using the calendar write enable, address bus, and data bus. SnkCalAddr is used to indicate the location in the calendar buffer, and SnkCalData is used to indicate the channel number that should be written into that location. When outputting RStat, the status for the channel written to SnkCalAddr=0 is output first, followed by

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UG181 specifications

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