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

28.14.4.1.2. Descriptor Interface

The descriptor interface is configurable to either 128-bit wide for standard descriptor format, or 256-bit wide for extended descriptor format when parameter Enable Extended Feature Support is enabled. When writing descriptors to this interface, you must set the last bit high so the descriptor can be completely written to the dispatcher module.

Avalon® -MM Descriptor Agent Interface (descriptor_slave)

The descriptor agent interface allows write-only access. You can access the byte lanes of this interface in any order, as long as the last bit is written during the last write access.

Note: This interface is applicable only for non pre-fetching use cases.
Table 418.   Avalon® -MM Descriptor Agent Interface
Signal Name Direction Type Description
descriptor_slave_write Input Avalon® Memory-Mapped Agent Write transfer into the descriptor FIFO.
descriptor_slave_byteenable [15:0] or [31:0] Input Enable the byte lanes during write transfer into the descriptor FIFO.
descriptor_slave_writedata [127:0] or [255:0] Input

Data of the descriptor write transfer into the descriptor FIFO.

Refer to the Descriptor Format (without Prefetcher) section for data definition.

Standard descriptor: 128-bit width

Extended descriptor: 256-bit width

descriptor_slave_waitrequest Output mSGDMA IP asserts waitrequest when unable to respond to the descriptor write request.

Avalon® -ST Descriptor Sink Interface (descriptor_sink)

This interface is used to receive streaming descriptor information from the prefetcher core.

Note: This interface is applicable only for pre-fetching use cases.
Table 419.   Avalon® -ST Descriptor Sink Interface
Signal Name Direction Type Description
snk_descriptor_ready Output Avalon® Streaming Sink Avalon® -ST ready control with ready latency of 0. Used to backpressure the descriptor streaming source from Prefetcher.
snk_descriptor_valid Input Avalon® -ST valid control. Indicates that the descriptor information from Prefetcher is valid.
snk_descriptor_data [127:0] or [255:0] Input

Avalon® -ST data bus. Refer to the Descriptor Format section for data definition.

Standard descriptor: 128-bit width

Extended descriptor: 256-bit width