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11 years ago

BFM Read from On Chip RAM

I followed D. W. Hawkins ([email protected]) tutorial on JTAG-to-Avalon-MM. There is a task in the tutorial that reads a slave address using the BFM master. The slave is onchip_ram. The problem is...
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11 years ago

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I am very, very sorry to take your time this way.

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No need to apologize. If I'm too busy to read the forum, I simply won't answer :)

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I was reading my preloaded RAM's HEX in a very very bizarre fashion which led to my confusions. I have spend the whole day debugging it... but I learned a lot about QSys/interconnects/translators/BFMs by probing all of them and how they work, thanks to your insight.

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So I take this to mean that everything is now working correctly? Excellent.

I tend to appreciate bugs as an opportunity to learn. If everything "just worked" you'd never gain the insight you obtain by debugging a problem.

Of course this appreciation only ever occurs after the bug has been fixed :)

Cheers,

Dave