Embedded Peripherals IP User Guide

ID 683130
Date 10/24/2025
Public
Document Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Avalon® -ST Serial Peripheral Interface Core 3. SPI Core 4. SPI Agent/JTAG to Avalon® Host Bridge Cores 5. Intel eSPI Agent Core 6. eSPI to LPC Bridge Core 7. Ethernet MDIO Core 8. Intel FPGA 16550 Compatible UART Core 9. UART Core 10. Lightweight 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. EPCS/EPCQA Serial Flash Controller Core 17. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller Core 18. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller II Core 19. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller Core 20. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller II Core 21. Interval Timer Core 22. Intel FPGA Avalon FIFO Memory Core 23. On-Chip Memory (RAM and ROM) Intel FPGA IP 24. On-Chip Memory II (RAM or ROM) Intel FPGA IP 25. PIO Core 26. PLL Cores 27. DMA Controller Core 28. Modular Scatter-Gather DMA Core 29. Scatter-Gather DMA Controller Core 30. Video Sync Generator and Pixel Converter Cores 31. Intel FPGA Interrupt Latency Counter Core 32. Performance Counter Unit Core 33. Vectored Interrupt Controller Core 34. System ID Peripheral Core 35. Intel FPGA GMII to RGMII Converter Core 36. HPS GMII to RGMII Adapter IP 37. Intel FPGA MII to RMII Converter Core 38. HPS GMII to TSE 1000BASE-X/SGMII PCS Bridge Core IP 39. Intel FPGA HPS EMAC to Multi-rate PHY GMII Adapter Core 40. Intel FPGA MSI to GIC Generator Core 41. Cache Coherency Translator IP 42. Altera ACE5-Lite Cache Coherency Translator

29.8. Scatter-Gather DMA Controller Core Revision History

Document Version Quartus® Prime Version Changes
2018.05.07 18.0 Implemented editorial enhancements.
Date Version Changes
October 2015 2015.10.30 Updated sections:
  • Register Maps: "Control Register Bit Map" table
  • SG-DMA API: "Function List" table

Added sections:

  • alt_avalon_sgdma_enable_desc_poll()
  • alt_avalon_sgdma_disable_desc_poll()
July 2014 2014.07.24 Updated Register Maps table, included version register
December 2010

v10.1.0

Updated figure 19-4 and figure 19-5.

Revised the bit description of IE_GLOBAL in table 19-7.

Removed the “Device Support”, “Instantiating the Core in SOPC Builder”, and “Referenced Documents” sections.

July 2010

v10.0.0

No change from previous release.
November 2009

v9.1.0

Revised descriptions of register fields and bits.

Added description to the memory-to-stream configurations.

Added descriptions to alt_avalon_sgdma_do_sync_transfer() and alt_avalon_sgdma_do_async_transfer() API.

Added a list on error signals implementation.

March 2009

v9.0.0

Added description of Enable bursting on descriptor read host.
November 2008 v8.1.0 Changed to 8-1/2 x 11 page size.

Added section DMA Descriptors in Functional Specifications

Revised descriptions of register fields and bits.

Reorganized sections Software Programming Model and Programming with SG-DMA Controller Core.

May 2008 v8.0.0 Added sections on burst transfers.