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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

DMA Problems

Hi there !! I´ve got problems using dma controller in sopc builder, quartus 8.0 and cyclone III. I try to write about 16000 values of a 32 bit word from one memory to another. in a first test th...
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15 years ago

thanks for help...this is also what i expected yesterday evening. anyway copying with dma is much faster than anything else...are you also experienced with configuring a scatter gather dma controller ?

i also found out, if configure dma in burst mode and set burst length to 1024 words, it´s possible to send 1024 in a row without a gap in between.. but length for one burst is limited to this number of words...

thanks