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14 years ago

Interfacing with narrower width of slave

Hi I have a question regarding to interfacing with narrower or wider width of slave. As we know, our Nios II is 32-bit width. To perform a read/write to a slave, says a 16-bit memory, how should this...
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14 years ago

The SOPC builder will include a 'bus width adapter' between the nios cpu and any 16bit slave. This automatically generates two 16bit slave cycles for each master cycle. The code is the same.