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20 years ago

SOPC builder

Hello, I began my project and now I begin to understand all the advantages of the NIOS. I have to plug a CMOS video sensor to my NIOS II evaluation board. Would it be better for me to use the...
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When I use the signal address, how can I know what will be those addresses, knowing that in SOPC builder, there are no adresses pre-assigned (as it is a master).[/b]

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I&#39;ve built an Avalon Master too and i had the same problem. To solve it, i&#39;ve built also an Avalon slave port in my peripheral: in this way, Nios processor could inizialize some registers of the peripheral to set the correct address for the avalon master port.

The waitrequest is automatically sent by the avalon bus each time that the peripheral has to wait, as you said. Your Avalon master port have only to manage correctly this waitrequest.