Nios® V Processor Software Developer Handbook

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Date 4/01/2024
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14.2.2.3. Memory-Mapped Slave Information

Table 50.  Avalon Memory-Mapped Slave Information - Assign with set_interface_assignment
Configuration Name Type Default Meaning Examples
isMemoryDevice boolean 0 The slave port provides access to a memory device. Intel® FPGA® On-Chip Memory Component, DDR Controller,Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (QSPI) flash device controller
isPrintableDevice boolean 0 The slave port provides access to a character-based device. Intel® FPGA UART, Intel FPGA JTAG UART
isTimerDevice boolean 0 The slave port provides access to a timer device. Intel® FPGA Timer
isEthernetMacDevice boolean 0 The slave port provides access to an Ethernet media access control (MAC). Intel® FPGA Triple-Speed Ethernet
isNonVolatileStorage boolean 0 The memory device is a non-volatile memory device. The contents of a non-volatile memory device are fixed and always present. In normal operation, you can only read from this memory. If this property is true, you must also set isMemoryDevice to true. QSPI flash devices, on-chip FPGA memory configured as a ROM
isFlash boolean 0 The memory device is a flash memory device. If isFlash is true, you must also set isMemoryDevice and isNonVolatileStorage to true. QSPI flash devices
affectsTransactionsOnMasters string empty

string

A list of master names delimited by spaces, for example m1 m2. Used when the slave port provides access to Avalon-MM control registers in the component. The control registers control transfers on the specified master ports.

The slave port can configure the control registers for master ports on the listed components. The address space for this slave port is composed of the address spaces of the named master ports.

Nios® V embedded software tools use this information to generate #define directives describing the address space of these master ports.

Intel® FPGA direct memory access (DMA), Modular Scatter-Gather DMA