Embedded Peripherals IP User Guide

ID 683130
Date 8/11/2025
Public
Document Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Avalon® -ST Single-Clock and Dual-Clock FIFO Cores 3. Avalon® -ST Serial Peripheral Interface Core 4. SPI Core 5. SPI Agent/JTAG to Avalon® Host Bridge Cores 6. Intel eSPI Agent Core 7. eSPI to LPC Bridge Core 8. Ethernet MDIO Core 9. Intel FPGA 16550 Compatible UART Core 10. UART Core 11. JTAG UART Core 12. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mailbox Core 13. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mutex Core 14. Intel FPGA Avalon® I2C (Host) Core 15. Intel FPGA I2C Agent to Avalon® -MM Host Bridge Core 16. Intel FPGA Avalon® Compact Flash Core 17. EPCS/EPCQA Serial Flash Controller Core 18. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller Core 19. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller II Core 20. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller Core 21. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller II Core 22. Interval Timer Core 23. Intel FPGA Avalon FIFO Memory Core 24. On-Chip Memory (RAM and ROM) Intel FPGA IP 25. On-Chip Memory II (RAM or ROM) Intel FPGA IP 26. Optrex 16207 LCD Controller Core 27. PIO Core 28. PLL Cores 29. DMA Controller Core 30. Modular Scatter-Gather DMA Core 31. Scatter-Gather DMA Controller Core 32. SDRAM Controller Core 33. Tri-State SDRAM Core 34. Video Sync Generator and Pixel Converter Cores 35. Intel FPGA Interrupt Latency Counter Core 36. Performance Counter Unit Core 37. Vectored Interrupt Controller Core 38. Avalon® -ST Data Pattern Generator and Checker Cores 39. Avalon® -ST Test Pattern Generator and Checker Cores 40. System ID Peripheral Core 41. Avalon® Packets to Transactions Converter Core 42. Avalon® -ST Multiplexer and Demultiplexer Cores 43. Avalon® -ST Bytes to Packets and Packets to Bytes Converter IP 44. Avalon® -ST Delay Core 45. Avalon® -ST Round Robin Scheduler Core 46. Avalon® -ST Splitter Core 47. Avalon® -MM DDR Memory Half Rate Bridge Core 48. Intel FPGA GMII to RGMII Converter Core 49. HPS GMII to RGMII Adapter Intel® FPGA IP 50. Intel FPGA MII to RMII Converter Core 51. HPS GMII to TSE 1000BASE-X/SGMII PCS Bridge Core Intel® FPGA IP 52. Intel FPGA HPS EMAC to Multi-rate PHY GMII Adapter Core 53. Intel FPGA MSI to GIC Generator Core 54. Cache Coherency Translator Intel® FPGA IP 55. Altera ACE5-Lite Cache Coherency Translator 56. Lightweight UART Core

31.4. Parameters

Table 352.  Configurable Parameters
Parameter Legal Values Description
Transfer mode Memory To Memory
Memory To Stream
Stream To Memory Configuration to use. For more information about these configurations, see the Memory-to-Memory Configuration section.
Enable bursting on descriptor read host On/Off If this option is on, the descriptor processor block uses Avalon® -MM bursting when fetching descriptors and writing them back in memory. With 32-bit read and write ports, the descriptor processor block can fetch the 256-bit descriptor by performing 8-word burst as opposed to eight individual single-word transactions.
Allow unaligned transfers On/Off If this option is on, the core allows accesses to non-word-aligned addresses. This option doesn’t apply for burst transfers.

Unaligned transfers require extra logic that may negatively impact system performance.

Enable burst transfers On/Off Turning on this option enables burst reads and writes.
Read burstcount signal width 1–16 The width of the read burstcount signal. This value determines the maximum burst read size.
Write burstcount signal width 1–16 The width of the write burstcount signal. This value determines the maximum burst write size.
Data width 8, 16, 32, 64 The data width in bits for the Avalon® -MM read and write ports.
Source error width 0–7 The width of the error signal for the Avalon® -ST source port.
Sink error width 0 – 7 The width of the error signal for the Avalon® -ST sink port.
Data transfer FIFO depth 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 The depth of the internal data FIFO in memory-to-memory configurations with burst transfers disabled.

The SG-DMA controller core should be given a higher priority (lower IRQ value) than most of the components in a system to ensure high throughput.