Avalon and 8-bit CFI

Hi Al,

I know I discussed this once before with wentao ... but I'd like to confirm ... since I seem to be

having one of those "senior moments" ;-):

Using the toggle bit (DQ6) to test for flash erase/write operation in progress won't work with the avalon

bus because the avalon bus performs 4 consecutive reads of an 8-bit device, correct?

i.e. -- for a single 8-bit CPU read, the avalon bus does 4 external bus cycles, and DQ6 does the

following: 1 -> 0 -> 1 -> 0 ... and the subsequent CPU read will never see DQ6 change state.

So, data polling via DQ7 is the way to go ... do I have this right?

Regards,

--Scott

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