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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Urgent: FIFO

Hello. anyone has FIFO example or tutorial or guide? I am trying to do DMA peripheral to memory transfer. I am using FIFO together with my peripheral so that DMA can transfer data from peripheral to ...
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14 years ago

The modular SGDMA should have a somewhat similar API as the DMA you are currently trying to use. The masters have FIFOs built in so it practically does all the work for you. The same is true for the SGDMA that comes with the ACDS, it's just that one has a more complicated software API.

Also as a heads up I plan on moving the modular SGDMA to the alterawiki.... I haven't had the time to do it just in case you go looking for it and can't find it.