Agilex™ 7 FPGA – Nios® V Processor with DMA and OCM Design Example

Agilex™ 7 FPGA – Nios® V Processor with DMA and OCM Design Example

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11/22/2024

Introduction

This design example demonstrates the data transfer between the two on-chip memory (OCM) mapped to Nios® V processor through direct memory access (DMA).

Design Details

Device Family

Intel Agilex® 7 FPGA F-Series 014 (R24B) AGFB014R24B2E2V

Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition

Quartus Version

24.2

Other Tags

Validated in Quartus and Board

IP Cores (3)
IP Core IP Core Category
Nios V Soft Processor FPGA IP - M Core Embedded Processor
altera_avalon_onchip_memory2 Other
altera_avalon_jtag_uart Other

Detailed Description

This example design includes a Nios® V/m embedded processor connected to the DMA, On Chip RAM and JTAG UART IP.  The objective of the design is to accomplish a data transfer between the two On Chip RAM using a DMA (MSGDMA) IP.  

DMA facilitates the data transfer which is then read back by the processor.

The UART IP then prints the application output on the terminal.

Please refer to the document for details about the design.

Prepare the design template in the Quartus Prime software GUI

Note: After downloading the design example, you must prepare the design template. The file you downloaded is of the form of a <project>.par file which contains a compressed version of your design files (similar to a .qar file) and metadata describing the project. The combination of this information is what constitutes a <project>.par file. You can simply double click on the <project>.par file and Quartus will launch that project.

Design Details

Device Family

Intel Agilex® 7 FPGA F-Series 014 (R24B) AGFB014R24B2E2V

Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition

Quartus Version

24.2

Other Tags

Validated in Quartus and Board