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14 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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14 years ago

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well.. this is a stupid question, but i wanna ask anyway..

So you could actually create something using SOPC without implementing a NIOS 2 processor? I thought the whole purpose of using SOPC is to implement a design with a NIOS 2?

Michael

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The next generation tool called "Qsys" was specifically named that to try to break the perception that you can't use SOPC Builder without Nios II. Nios II is a software core processor, SOPC Builder and Qsys are system integration tools. The only thing the SOPC Builder/Qsys have in common in common with Nios II is support for Avalon memory mapped interfaces.