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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

DMA without nios

i am thinking that how to use a dma without nios. it seems i shoud write a dma controller by myself. does any one has done the same thing before? or any one can provide me some exam...
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15 years ago

Do you mean you have a system without any CPU and need to transfer data to/from memory? What's the actual use of such a system?

You can either write your own DMA, or create a component that's able to control the registers of an existing DMA.