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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

DMA transferring question

Hello again, I have a question about the dma engine that came with the older Nios I. My dma transfer now needs to be able to read some data, then skip x amount of bytes and then start reading ...
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21 years ago

Hi Aaron,

Thank you for your reply. I still would like to learn more about this undocumented technique, though i doubt I will use it in my design.

Also I started to go through the verilog code for the dma module that sopc builder generates and it looks like I should be able to alter the "readaddress_inc" variable to whatever desired byte jumps I need for the next set of data read. I have not tried it yet, but it looks like it should be okay for this test.

-Quan