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15 years ago

Qsys Avalon ST Conduits

Hi Guys, I'm frustratingly working my way through the SOPC webinars and documents on SOPC and avalon. (If your interested i'm trying to learn this so i can make a video output stream from HD...
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15 years ago

Thanks Badomen.

With your post and some reading i understand the concept of symbols, beats etc.

The two things i am struggling with is channels and why you would use packets?

channels:

Is this a case of having two channels with 16bit data, would mean your component has 32bit data connections?

packets:

Basically it seems that an avalon packet is just a normal stream with a start and end signal, which you would be catering for or using in your API. No other advantage?