IPT-C2H-NIOS Altera, IPT-C2H-NIOS Datasheet - Page 61

• Manufacturer Part Number: IPT-C2H-NIOS
• Description: C2H COMPILER FOR NIOS II
• Manufacturer: Altera
• Series: Nios®IIr
• Type: Nios IIr

Specifications of IPT-C2H-NIOS

• Function: C to Hardware Compiler
• License: Initial License
• Software Application: IP CORE, NIOS Processor And Functions
• Core Architecture: FPGA
• Core Sub-architecture: Cyclone
• Rohs Compliant: NA
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Not applicable / Not applicable

Figure 3–9. Address Generation for a Read Operation
Altera Corporation
November 2009
Each of these signals is registered at the master port interface of the
hardware accelerator. Logic within the accelerator synchronizes these
signals to produce coherent Avalon-MM master transfers at the master
port.
Address Computation
Consider the pointer dereference in the following code which performs a
read operation:
The C2H Compiler generates logic of the following form to compute the
address signal:
Figure 3–9
dereference for a read operation.
In
sizeof(int) is 4, i must be multiplied by four, which is equivalent to
left-shifting by 2 bits. Bitwise shift operators require no logic elements to
compute, and the result is not registered. (See section
Operations and Assignments” on page
ptr_to_int_i_address feeds registers that drive the address signals
on the Avalon-MM master port. As soon as the address signal
ptr_to_int_i_address is valid, read-enable control logic asserts the
signal ptr_to_int_i_read, which initiates a transfer on the master
Figure
int j = *(ptr_to_int + i);
ptr_to_int_i_addr = ptr_to_int + i * sizeof(int);
3–9, first, the address expression is evaluated. Assuming
shows an example of the logic created for this pointer
9.1
3–3.) The signal
C-to-Hardware Mapping Reference
Nios II C2H Compiler User Guide
“Unregistered
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