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8 years ago

Platform Designer BFM bug

Hi all, I have a little bug that is really annoying. Probably my fault because it seems very simple ! I open a Platform Designer project with my Quartus pro (version 17.1). I instantiate an...
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8 years ago

Just for the record, I got an answer from Altera support and the solution was indeed simple, but not clear. If you use the byteenable signal, the symbol width of the Avalon slave interface must stick to 8 bits. Hence, you have to play with the number of symbols of the BFM to cope with the length you need. In my case, instead of have 8 symbols of 64 bits, I had to go with 64 symbols of 8 bits.