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15 years ago

SOPC and beginbursttransfer

I am creating a custom Avalon MM Master that will need to speak to a HPCII DDR2 controller. Rather than generating the core in the SOPC tool, we are generating it using the Megawizard in Quartus. ...
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15 years ago

Historically that signal was used by the memory controller (not sure if it still does). That said you don't need to worry about it since it's a signal generated by the fabric and not the master. The fabric will know when a burst is starting drive it to the memory controller. So following the Avalon-MM spec you only need to include the subset of signals needed by your master and you let the fabric take care of the rest.