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12 years ago

Do NOT use AN502 SMBUS Altera IPCORE

Hi all, Beware of using this SMBUS protocol published at Altera website! I've spent 2 months on trying to implement and use this core. It has a lot of bugs, the manual is by all means differe...
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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Hi,

First, I need multi master capabilities (with arbitration), does it have it?

second, in Opencores they use the wishbone bus, which I'm not familier with, and I'm using the avalon of altera, so in this case, I will need to make adjustment between those 2 buses, more work...

And last, it is just frustrating I'm trying to use a core full of bugs and they put it on their site, such dignified company like Altera...