Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Platform Designer

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Date 4/02/2022
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5.7.1.1. Creating Dedicated Host and Agent Connections to Minimize Interconnect Logic

You can create a system where a host interface connects to a single agent interface. This configuration eliminates address decoding, arbitration, and return data multiplexing, which simplifies the interconnect. Dedicated host-to-agent connections attain the same clock frequencies as Avalon® streaming connections.

Typically, these one-to-one connections include an Avalon memory-mapped bridge or hardware accelerator. For example, if you insert a pipeline bridge between an agent and all other host interfaces, the logic between the bridge host and agent interface is reduced to wires. If a hardware accelerator connects only to a dedicated memory, no system interconnect logic is generated between the host and agent pair.