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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

a bug of switch?

Hi, I'm implementing a data path with a switch of VIP. From the VIP user guide, it mentioned that the status of switch can be read from its status register, when switch is running, it reads a 0...
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16 years ago

Hi,

For the video IP cores "not running" usually means that this is a safe point to read and write your control registers. It is not directly related to what was written on the Go bit. The status register is most probably reading 0 because there is curently no data flowing through the switch.