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

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Date 12/15/2018
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2.5.3.2. Changing the Response Buffer Depth

When you use automatic clock-crossing adapters, Platform Designer determines the required depth of FIFO buffering based on the slave properties. If a slave has a high Maximum Pending Reads parameter, the resulting deep response buffer FIFO that Platform Designer inserts between the master and slave can consume a lot of device resources. To control the response FIFO depth, you can use a clock crossing bridge and manually adjust its FIFO depth to trade off throughput with smaller memory utilization.

For example, if you have masters that cannot saturate the slave, you do not need response buffering. Using a bridge reduces the FIFO memory depth and reduces the Maximum Pending Reads available from the slave.