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14 years agoNios locks up with data cache bursts enabled
When I use the "enable bursts" feature on the Nios II data cache, my processor is locking up on an IORD instruction. I can reproduce this problem using a simple setup consisting on a Nios II/f,...
Altera_Forum
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14 years agoUpdate:
Using SignalTap, I can see that the reason the Nios is locking up is because it is waiting indefinitely for the Avalon read instruction to complete. The Nios data_master port is issuing a read, but the wait_request signal is never going low. On the slave side, however, the Avalon read signal is never going high. So something in the auto-generated interconnect appears to be indefinitely stalling the read.