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14 years ago

clearing fifo and blocking call to fifo

Hi, I have an avalon-ST source streaming data into a onchip FIFO (ST input & MM output). Currently the Nios reads blocks of data using a call to 'altera_avalon_fifo_read_fifo()' and places it ...
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14 years ago

It doesn't look like the FIFO supports flushing. By disabling do you mean disable it from accepting streaming data until enabled? If so then it doesn't look like it supports that either.

Normally I build my own FIFOs when I need additional functionality. Luckily they are easy to build so maybe that would be your best bet to do.