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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

SPI with Avalon-ST is a different component than simple SPI, which has Avalon-MM interface, so there are no interrupts, no overrun errors and that kind of stuff! Either You don't understand what I am talking about or this task is too difficult for You.