Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual: Agilex™ 5 SoCs

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Date 11/27/2024
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5.9.7.5.4. Receive FIFO Overflow

During I2C serial transfers, receive FIFO requests are made to the DMA whenever the number of entries in the receive FIFO is at or above the DMA Receive Data Level Register, that is IC_DMA_RDLR + 1. This is known as the watermark level. The DMA responds by fetching a burst of data from the receive FIFO.

Data should be fetched by the DMA often enough for the receive FIFO to accept serial transfers continuously, that is, when the FIFO begins to fill, another DMA transfer is requested. Otherwise the FIFO fills with data (overflow). To prevent this condition, the user must set the watermark level correctly.