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16 years ago

Instantiation of DMA on SOPC Builder

Hello, I have a question about instantiation of DMA in SOPC Builder. When you add the DMA controller, you must connect the read master and the write master. For me, I can connect them to any wh...
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16 years ago

The instruction master is only capable of reading instructions (code) from memory. It's not capable of write accesses since that's what the data master is for. As a result if you don't plan on placing code in a particular memory then there is no need to connect the instruction master up to it.