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14 years ago

Burst transfer from memory to Nios II

Hello, I have a hard time understanding how the Nios II handles memory accesses. In our Nios II design we want to use burst transfers to transfer data from SRAM into the caches of the proc...
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14 years ago

It should definitely be possible, I've done it on several designs. Check that the SGDMA masters are correctly connected to the on-chip memory and that the software is configured to put the packets data into those memories. If it doesn't work, use SignalTap to find out what the DMA is doing.