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16 years ago

Help-about peripheral IP design

Hi,dear friends. Recently I have done a DAC IP as a Nios peripheral but it doesn't meet the requirment.I do this IP as the example "pwm" from Altera.com.Now I send a series number to the dac(A...
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16 years ago

To remove jitter you'll need to ensure that the instructions take the same time each time thay are exectuted.

The dynamic branch prediction will scupper this.

As will any contention on the Avalon MM slave device.

(Even assuming there are no cacahe delays.)

You also need to check the assembler generated by the compiler to ensure the first loop iteration isn't coded separately.