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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Using Avalon-ST with VIP

I'm developing various pieces of IP that act like video generators similar to the Test Pattern Generator block in the VIP suite. Right now I have a small test design to learn how to use the Avalon-ST...
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14 years ago

It sounds to me as though your VIP control decoder block is buggy. All Avalon ST sinks must ignore the data signals if valid is deasserted (or ready is deasserted for readyLatency 0).

For a temporary fix can you send your data through a small FIFO (after the control decoder) to prevent small packets from being backpressured?