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14 years ago

SPI with DMA is not working?

Hi, everyone I am using SPI Master Core on FPGA to transmit data to SPI slave (offboard device). I want to use DMA to free my NIOS for other tasks during SPI data transfer. My Idea is NIOS...
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14 years ago

I've not used SPI with Avalon-ST interface, but since it's a streaming interface, there should be no problems if You will not use data reception part, since it's not keeping data in any buffer. Check documentation.