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

28.6. mSGDMA Interrupt

An active-high level interrupt is triggered when one of the following interrupt conditions is met:
  • transfer completion
  • early termination (applicable only for Streaming to Memory-Mapped configuration)
  • error detection (applicable only for Streaming to Memory-Mapped configuration)

When the Prefetcher is disabled, the IRQ is generated from the dispatcher block. On the other hand, when the Prefetcher is enabled, the IRQ is generated from the Prefetcher.

There is an equivalent global interrupt enable mask control bit and IRQ status bit which are defined in both dispatcher CSR and Prefetcher CSR. When Prefetcher is enabled, these two bits need to be defined in the Prefetcher as well since the actual IRQ register is now located in the Prefetcher. When the Prefetcher is disabled, software shall use the global interrupt enable mask bit and IRQ bit in the dispatcher CSR. On the other hand, when the Prefetcher is enabled, software shall use the global interrupt enable mask bit and IRQ bit in the Prefetcher CSR.

The masking bits for each of the interrupt sources are programmed in the descriptor, so that interrupt enables are unique for each transfer. When Prefetcher is enabled, the masking bits information will be passed to the Prefetcher through the Avalon-ST response interface from the dispatcher.

Upon receiving the interrupt assertion from mSGDMA IP, the software should poll for the STATUS register. The IRQ status bit is set by hardware and cleared by software. To clear this bit, software needs to write a 1 to this bit. The IRQ status bit is set when a hardware event has a higher priority than a clear by a software event. The IRQ port remains asserted as long as the irq bit of the Status register is still asserted and not cleared by software.