Forum Discussion

GLT1's avatar
GLT1
Icon for Occasional Contributor rankOccasional Contributor
4 years ago
Solved

MPFE for Stratix 10 EMIF?

Hello, For past designs, I've used the UniPHY SDRAM memory controller for a DDR memory interface. That controller contained a multi-port front end (MPFE) which could be used to create multiple s...
  • GLT1's avatar
    GLT1
    3 years ago

    OK, thanks. I don't think SGDMA is going to work for our application, since we have multiple masters who need to access the memory.

    Intel should consider bringing back the MPFE for the newer EMIF IP core. That was a really useful feature. To get rid of that without an equivalent replacement makes porting older designs to newer device architectures extra difficult.

    --

    Terry

GLT1's avatar
GLT1
Icon for Occasional Contributor rankOccasional Contributor
3 years ago

Hi Adzim,

That might work, but the port out of the EMIF core is Avalon-MM rather than Avalon-ST.

Are there components to convert MM to ST and then from ST back to MM? I can't seem to find anything like that in the Platform Designer IP list.

Thank you,

Terry