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Honored ContributorYou will not find a lot of training material / tutorials / examples on how to directly instantiate and interface with the external memory cores. They mostly expect you to just read the datasheet / manual for the IP core and connect the signals properly.
But, you will find lots of material on creating Qsys components and some of them will cover Avalon-MM Master interfaces. So for a beginner, I would suggest creating a new Qsys module with Avalon-MM Master port which can then be placed into a Qsys sytem with other components like on-chip memory and DDR2 controller. Just because Qsys systems commonly use a NIOS processor, you don't have to. Here are some links: http://www.altera.com/support/examples/design-entry-tools/qsys/exm-qsys-tut.html http://www.altera.com/support/examples/nios2/exm-avalon-mm.html http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/using_the_usb-blaster_as_an_sopc/qsys_avalon-mm_master_tutorial
