Embedded Peripherals IP User Guide

ID 683130
Date 2/16/2024
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Document Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Avalon® -ST Multi-Channel Shared Memory FIFO Core 3. Avalon® -ST Single-Clock and Dual-Clock FIFO Cores 4. Avalon® -ST Serial Peripheral Interface Core 5. SPI Core 6. SPI Agent/JTAG to Avalon® Host Bridge Cores 7. Intel eSPI Agent Core 8. eSPI to LPC Bridge Core 9. Ethernet MDIO Core 10. Intel FPGA 16550 Compatible UART Core 11. UART Core 12. JTAG UART Core 13. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mailbox Core 14. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mutex Core 15. Intel FPGA Avalon® I2C (Host) Core 16. Intel FPGA I2C Agent to Avalon® -MM Host Bridge Core 17. Intel FPGA Avalon® Compact Flash Core 18. EPCS/EPCQA Serial Flash Controller Core 19. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller Core 20. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller II Core 21. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller Core 22. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller II Core 23. Interval Timer Core 24. Intel FPGA Avalon FIFO Memory Core 25. On-Chip Memory (RAM and ROM) Intel FPGA IP 26. On-Chip Memory II (RAM or ROM) Intel FPGA IP 27. Optrex 16207 LCD Controller Core 28. PIO Core 29. PLL Cores 30. DMA Controller Core 31. Modular Scatter-Gather DMA Core 32. Scatter-Gather DMA Controller Core 33. SDRAM Controller Core 34. Tri-State SDRAM Core 35. Video Sync Generator and Pixel Converter Cores 36. Intel FPGA Interrupt Latency Counter Core 37. Performance Counter Unit Core 38. Vectored Interrupt Controller Core 39. Avalon® -ST Data Pattern Generator and Checker Cores 40. Avalon® -ST Test Pattern Generator and Checker Cores 41. System ID Peripheral Core 42. Avalon® Packets to Transactions Converter Core 43. Avalon® -ST Multiplexer and Demultiplexer Cores 44. Avalon® -ST Bytes to Packets and Packets to Bytes Converter Cores 45. Avalon® -ST Delay Core 46. Avalon® -ST Round Robin Scheduler Core 47. Avalon® -ST Splitter Core 48. Avalon® -MM DDR Memory Half Rate Bridge Core 49. Intel FPGA GMII to RGMII Converter Core 50. Intel FPGA MII to RMII Converter Core 51. HPS GMII to TSE 1000BASE-X/SGMII PCS Bridge Core Intel® FPGA IP 52. Intel FPGA HPS EMAC to Multi-rate PHY GMII Adapter Core 53. Intel FPGA MSI to GIC Generator Core 54. Cache Coherency Translator Intel® FPGA IP 55. Lightweight UART Core

5.4.1.1. alt_avalon_spi_command()

Prototype: int alt_avalon_spi_command(alt_u32 base, alt_u32 slave,

                            alt_u32 write_length,                            const alt_u8* wdata,

                           alt_u32 read_length,

                           alt_u8* read_data,

                           alt_u32 flags)

Thread-safe: No.
Available from ISR: No.
Include: <altera_avalon_spi.h>
Description: This function performs a control sequence on the SPI bus. It supports only SPI hosts with data width less than or equal to 8 bits. A single call to this function writes a data buffer of arbitrary length to the mosi port, and then reads back an arbitrary amount of data from the miso port. The function performs the following actions:

(1) Asserts the agent select output for the specified agent. The first agent select output is 0.

(2) Transmits write_length bytes of data from wdata through the SPI interface, discarding the incoming data on the miso port.

(3) Reads read_length bytes of data and stores the data into the buffer pointed to by read_data. The mosi port is set to zero during the read transaction.

(4) De-asserts the agent select output, unless the flags field contains the value ALT_AVALON_SPI_COMMAND_MERGE. If you want to transmit from scattered buffers, call the function multiple times and specify the merge flag on all the accesses except the last.

To access the SPI bus from more than one thread, you must use a semaphore or mutex to ensure that only one thread is executing within this function at any time.

Returns: The number of bytes stored in the read_data buffer.