Honored ContributorDear all,
Can SGDMA be controlled by FPGA logic without any C program from Nios II if we only use it to transfer data between on-chip memory and off-chip memory (DDR2 SDRAM)? If so, how to do that more easier and efficient? What steps need be done? Anyone has examples/documents? Thank you very much!
Honored ContributorYou can.
NIOS does not have a special role, it's just yet another Avalon-MM master. You can use whatever you want to control SGDMA. All you need is to make your logic an Avalon-MM master which writes the proper values into the SGDMA configuration registers. So, basically, we're talking about a some kind of state machine. That said, slapping in NIOS II/e core and a small C program should be simpler.Honored ContributorI agree, it's possible but processors are normally more appropriate for control plane type stuff like this.
