Scalable Scatter-Gather DMA FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 9/22/2025
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Document Table of Contents
Document Table of Contents x
1. Product Discontinuance Notification 2. Terms and Acronyms 3. Introduction 4. Functional Description 5. Interfaces 6. HAL Driver for DMA SoC Mode  7. Parameters 8. Registers 9. Document Revision History for the Scalable Scatter-Gather DMA Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
3. Introduction x
3.1. Device Family Support 3.2. Release Information 3.3. Resource Utilization
4. Functional Description x
4.1. DMA PCIe* Mode 4.2. DMA SoC Mode 4.3. Device Port 4.4. Prefetcher Engine 4.5. DMA Arbiter 4.6. DMA Router 4.7. CSRUnit 4.8. Descriptor Handling 4.9. Interrupts 4.10. Reset Initialization Flows 4.11. Transaction Flow
4.1. DMA PCIe* Mode x
4.1.1. Submodules
4.1.1. Submodules x
4.1.1.1. PCIe* TLP Constructor 4.1.1.2. PCIe* TLP ID Generation 4.1.1.3. PCIe TX Credit Controller 4.1.1.4. PCIe* TX Scheduler 4.1.1.5. PCIe TLP Completer 4.1.1.6. PCIe RX Router 4.1.1.7. PCIe* MSI-X Controller 4.1.1.8. PCIe BAR0 4.1.1.9. PCIe Bursting Manager (BAM) 4.1.1.10. Completion Timeout Parser 4.1.1.11. Control Shadow Parser
4.2. DMA SoC Mode x
4.2.1. Interrupt Controller 4.2.2. Host AXI-4 Agent 4.2.3. Host CSR AXI-4 Lite Agent
4.3. Device Port x
4.3.1. ST Source Agent/ST Sink Agent/MM Agent 4.3.2. Descriptor Engine 4.3.3. Agent Controller 4.3.4. Constructor 4.3.5. Responder 4.3.6. Width Adaptation FIFO
4.8. Descriptor Handling x
4.8.1. Link Descriptor 4.8.2. Data Descriptor 4.8.3. Responder Descriptor 4.8.4. Descriptor Chain 4.8.5. Aligned and Unaligned Transfer Support
4.8.2. Data Descriptor x
4.8.2.1. Data Descriptor - H2D Streaming Transfer 4.8.2.2. Data Descriptor - D2H Streaming Transfer 4.8.2.3. Data Descriptor - H2D Memory Transfer
4.8.3. Responder Descriptor x
4.8.3.1. Responder Descriptor - H2D Streaming Transfer 4.8.3.2. Responder Descriptor - D2H Streaming Transfer 4.8.3.3. Responder Descriptor - H2D Memory Transfer
4.8.4. Descriptor Chain x
4.8.4.1. Descriptor Fetch and Status Update Mechanism
4.11. Transaction Flow x
4.11.1. General DMA Operation Flow 4.11.2. Host to Device (H2D) Flow 4.11.3. Device to Host (D2H) Flow 4.11.4. Soft Reset Handshake Flow
5. Interfaces x
5.1. Port List 5.2. DMA PCIe* Mode Interfaces 5.3. DMA SoC Mode Interfaces 5.4. Device Port Interfaces 5.5. Resets 5.6. Clocks
5.2. DMA PCIe* Mode Interfaces x
5.2.1. Application Packet Receive Interface 5.2.2. Application Packet Transmit Interface 5.2.3. Control Shadow Interface 5.2.4. Transmit Flow Control Credit Interface 5.2.5. Completion Timeout Interface 5.2.6. PCIe* Miscellaneous Signals 5.2.7. Control and Status Register Responder Manager Interface 5.2.8. Bursting Manager Interface
5.3. DMA SoC Mode Interfaces x
5.3.1. Host AXI-4 Memory Map Manager Interface 5.3.2. Host AXI-4 Lite CSR Memory Map Subordinate Interface 5.3.3. Interrupt Interface
5.4. Device Port Interfaces x
5.4.1. Device to Host <PORT#> AXI-ST Subordinate Interface 5.4.2. Device to Host <PORT#> Avalon-ST Sink Interface 5.4.3. Host to Device <PORT#> AXI-ST Manager Interface 5.4.4. Host to Device <PORT#> Avalon-ST Source Interface 5.4.5. Host to Device <PORT#> AXI-4 Manager Interface
6. HAL Driver for DMA SoC Mode  x
6.1. Descriptor Indexing  6.2. HAL Public API 
6.1. Descriptor Indexing  x
6.1.1. Data Descriptors  6.1.2. Responders 
6.2. HAL Public API  x
6.2.1. Software Features 6.2.2. intel_ssgdma.c  6.2.3. intel_ssgdma_global.c 6.2.4. intel_ssgdma_device_port.c  6.2.5. intel_ssgdma_descriptor.c 
7. Parameters x
7.1. DMA Settings 7.2. Device Port Settings 7.3. DMA PCIe Mode Settings 7.4. DMA SoC Mode Settings 7.5. Example Design
7.2. Device Port Settings x
7.2.1. H2D MM 7.2.2. H2D ST 7.2.3. D2H ST
8. Registers x
8.1. Global CSR 8.2. MSI-X Memory Space 8.3. Device Port Control Register
1. Product Discontinuance Notification
2. Terms and Acronyms
3. Introduction
4. Functional Description
5. Interfaces
6. HAL Driver for DMA SoC Mode 
7. Parameters
8. Registers
9. Document Revision History for the Scalable Scatter-Gather DMA Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

4.2. DMA SoC Mode

In this mode, the SSGDMA is paired with the HPS/ Nios® V Processor. The host AXI4 interface is accessing to host memory from HPS or Nios® V for both descriptor and data.

The host interface supports the HPS F2S/F2SDRAM interface requirement for cache coherency and security access. The cache coherency and security access are only applicable to the F2S interface from HPS only.

There is a host_csr AXI4-Lite interface available for the host to access the control and status register.

Note: For all AXI4 transactions sent to the user logic, the fixed identification tag number must be used to avoid out-of-order responses returned as Host Agent currently does not support reordering.

Section Content
Interrupt Controller
Host AXI-4 Agent
Host CSR AXI-4 Lite Agent

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