What is the purpose of the Avalon-MM master and Avalon-MM slave templates?

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Yo can write your own component using Avalon-MM bus and late use it with NIOSII softcore.
 

Avalon is just a bus specification. You can use it to connect any components together. It is very similar to AXI from ARM.
 

OK, while I understand the purpose of the Avalon-MM slave, what about the master template? Won't the master always be a Nios II? Then why do we need this Avalon-MM master template?
 

You can have more the one master at Avalon-MM bus. It can be very useful if you want to transfer a large chunk of data between network interface and memory without using CPU resources.
 

matrixofdynamism said:
OK, while I understand the purpose of the Avalon-MM slave, what about the master template? Won't the master always be a Nios II? Then why do we need this Avalon-MM master template?
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You can build a system using Avalon without a Nios, or any CPU. So something needs to be a master.
 

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