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21 years ago

Shared pins on Avalon bus devices

I have a problem with SRAM chip and FLASH chip sharing tri-state address/data bus. I have configured my custom board and ported flash programmer. I have declared FLASH chip as AM29LV641DH with ...
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21 years ago

From an engineer...

They should declare their chipselect pin to be of type chipselect_n and read the Avalon Bus Specification Reference Manual. Page 80 of 106 talks about shared pins.

A problem report will be filed saying that the description on page 80 isn't very good. It should define the pin naming scheme. i.e.

Is_Shared = "0" yields

<pin_name>_to_the_<module_name>