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I have a problem with SRAM chip and FLASH chip sharing tri-state address/data bus.
I have configured my custom board and ported flash programmer. I have declared FLASH chip as AM29LV641DH with designator U6 on my board. In the board Quartus design I see correct pinout for tri-state bus: - external_memory_address, - external_memory_data, - ext_memory_readn, - select_n_to_the_flash_memory, - write_n_to_the_flash_memory. Do not quite get it why they use a different convention of naming write and read signals, but maybe I will figure it later http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif Now, in my system design using this previously configured board, I added tri-state bus, ext_flash memory which showed up correctly as U6, and a user logic module to my SRAM 16-bits chips on the same bus. After nios2 cpu symbol was regenerated I got following signals: - chipselect_to_the_SRAM_bank1 (strange anyway, was expecting chipselect_n!) - ext_memory_bus_address - ext_memory_bus_data, - ext_memory_bus_readn, - ext_memory_bus_writen, - select_n_to_the_ext_flash, - write_n_to_ext_flash. What is the difference between ext_memory_bus_writen and write_n_to_ext_flash? I have this signals shared on my tri-state bus. How to configure flash chip to share commong ext_memory_bus_writen signal for its write operations? Also, on my 16-bit bus I have two (active low) signals: low_byte and high_byte. How to configure them with "byteenablen" Avalon signals?Link Copied
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From an engineer...
They should declare their chipselect pin to be of type chipselect_n and read the Avalon Bus Specification Reference Manual. Page 80 of 106 talks about shared pins. A problem report will be filed saying that the description on page 80 isn't very good. It should define the pin naming scheme. i.e. Is_Shared = "0" yields <pin_name>_to_the_<module_name>- Mark as New
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