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12 years ago

SOPC/QSYS connect 32 bits avalon slave to a 8 bits SRAM

Hi everyone my name is Alban, EE & embedded systems engineer, Strasbourg, France I made and 512k x 8bits SRAM expansion for my Cyclone II EP2C8 dev board i would like to make it acces...
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12 years ago

Unfortunately there is no fix for this, it is how the Avalon fabric translates a 32-bit read on a 8-bit slave. The only workaround I can think of is that you make your own 32-bit Avalon MM slave that will do the translation to 8 bit accesses itself, splitting one 32-bit request into 1,2 or 4 8-bit requests.