Intel® Arria® 10 Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual

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Date 8/28/2023
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18.6.6. Performing Normal Receive and Transmit Operation

For normal operation, perform the following steps: †

  1. For normal transmit and receive interrupts, read the interrupt status. Then, poll the descriptors, reading the status of the descriptor owned by the Host (either transmit or receive). †
  2. Set appropriate values for the descriptors, ensuring that transmit and receive descriptors are owned by the DMA to resume the transmission and reception of data. †
  3. If the descriptors are not owned by the DMA (or no descriptor is available), the DMA goes into SUSPEND state. The transmission or reception can be resumed by freeing the descriptors and issuing a poll demand by writing 0 into the TX/RX poll demand registers, (Register 1 (Transmit Poll Demand Register) and Register 2 (Receive Poll Demand Register)). †
  4. The values of the current host transmitter or receiver descriptor address pointer can be read for the debug process (Register 18 (Current Host Transmit Descriptor Register) and Register 19 (Current Host Receive Descriptor Register)). †
  5. The values of the current host transmit buffer address pointer and receive buffer address pointer can be read for the debug process (Register 20 (Current Host Transmit Buffer Address Register) and Register 21 (Current Host Receive Buffer Address Register)). †