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9 years ago

using the SGDMA (M -> ST) without a NIOS processor

Hi, I am having a hard time getting thre sgdma to work without the use of a nios processor. What I want to achieve is to read a bunch of data from the SDRAM and push that into a dual cloc...
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Hello Grobi, Have you worked with the SGDMA with nios? If you have, you can mimic the library in how they send the descriptors and such. --Trukng

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... I have not worked with it before, first touch so to speak.... but thats a brilliant idea to observe a running system and mimic it, why haven't I thought of that? I will give it a shot and that will also get me a lil bit acquainted with signaltap, have not used that tool before either. Thank you!