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21 years ago

Streaming DMA transfer from UL

Dear collegue engineers, I have been working with the NIOS II kit for a few weeks now and I have pretty much all of my interface/peripheral chips linked together. The only thing that I am still strug...
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21 years ago

Arjan,

Not to put a damper on things, but we spent months trying to get Streaming DMA to work flawlessly. We gave up and inserted a fifo that interrupts the Nios and then dma the fifo contents into sdram.

Mike D. has a peripheral that may help with this approach in the Post your IP section. We just used a standard LPM_FIFO and and IUL though.

Ken