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16 years ago

How can I use Altera's HP DDR controller for fast 8x64 read?

Hi, A newbee's question. Needs suggestion and confirmation. I have an application in SOPC. There are 2-3 masters that need to access a DDR SRAM. The data width for all masters are 64bit...
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16 years ago

Bursting will allow your master to lock down the arbiter for the duration of the burst. You can also increase the arbitration share of your master which will allow it to keep accessing the slave port assuming it doesn't de-assert the read or write signals.

This document will provide more details: http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/edh_ed51007.pdf