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6.2. Functional Description
The SPI Agent to Avalon® Host Bridge and the JTAG to Avalon® Host Bridge cores accept encoded streams of bytes with transaction data on their respective physical interfaces and initiate Avalon® -MM transactions on their Avalon® -MM interfaces. Each bridge consists of the following cores, which are available as stand-alone components in Platform Designer:
- Avalon® -ST Serial Peripheral Interface and Avalon® -ST JTAG Interface—Accepts incoming data in bits and packs them into bytes.
- Avalon® -ST Bytes to Packets Converter—Transforms packets into encoded stream of bytes, and a likewise encoded stream of bytes into packets.
- Avalon® -ST Packets to Transactions Converter—Transforms packets with data encoded according to a specific protocol into Avalon® -MM transactions, and encodes the responses into packets using the same protocol.
- Avalon® -ST Single Clock FIFO—Buffers data from the Avalon® -ST JTAG Interface core. The FIFO is only used in the JTAG to Avalon® Host Bridge.
For the bridges to successfully transform the incoming streams of bytes to Avalon® -MM transactions, the streams of bytes must be constructed according to the protocols used by the cores.