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Altera_Forum
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19 years ago

simple project with DMA

I've been working a long time with NIOS II Stratix edition. I want to improve my system's performance by adding DMA. My problem is, that everything is working well. However if only add DMA...
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Altera_Forum
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19 years ago

Most (if not all) "Full Feature"ed designs have Avalon DMAs. There is nothing special about adding a DMA. It's just another Avalon master.

I would double check your SOPC Builder design to make sure that your processor is still connected, correctly. Additionally, I would step through all of the code in alt_sys_init() to determine what (if anything) is failing to initialize.

Cheers,

- slacker