// Create a helpful test pattern to identify output pins // Attach each bit from the "pattern" output port to an output pin; // you can then visually identify pins by looking at the trace with // an oscilloscope. module visible( input clk, output [15:0] pattern ); // Get down to a reasonable rate for 'scope probes // div==6 yields 1.28 us granularity when running from 50 MHz local bus clock. parameter div = 6; reg [div-1:0] pre_cnt=0; reg tick=0; always @(posedge clk) begin pre_cnt <= pre_cnt+1; tick <= &pre_cnt; end // Count, and start decoding it reg [7:0] count=0; reg in_block=0, start_bit=0, stop_bit=0; always @(posedge clk) if (tick) begin count <= count+1; in_block <= count[7:5]==0; start_bit <= count[2:0]==0; stop_bit <= count[2:0]==7; end // Key stanza to create all the serial streams reg [15:0] pat_bits=0; genvar ix; generate for (ix=0; ix<16; ix=ix+1) begin wire [3:0] ixx = ix; always @(posedge clk) if (tick) pat_bits[ix] <= ixx[count[4:3]]; end endgenerate // Put it all together reg [15:0] result=0; always @(posedge clk) if (tick) begin result <= (~in_block | stop_bit) ? 16'h0000 : start_bit ? 16'hffff : pat_bits; end assign pattern=result; endmodule