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Honored ContributormSGDMA stride reads/writes
Has anyone used the Stride feature (available with the extended descriptor)? I using the Qsys PCIe example design on the wiki. When I enable the extended descriptor and stride option, the data tran...
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Honored ContributorI recommend using a pair of DMAs, one setup for MM-->ST and the other for ST-->MM. This means one DMA is capable of only reads and the other is only capable of writes. Since the master blocks contain a FIFO internally it would probably be sufficient to export the streaming port of each master block so that your external logic can access the FIFO directly.
For the read DMA you would configure the dispatcher for MM to ST mode and connect the read master to it. For the write DMA you would configure the dispatcher to ST to MM mode and connect the write master to it. Also I recommend visiting the mSGDMA wiki page since I uploaded an update to the read master to fix a FIFO overflow bug.
