Embed Notice

FPGA/ASIC people: when you have a complex state machine fetching data from a memory with unpredictable latency (e.g. AXI bus that may have contention, or external DRAM) how do you figure out what to do when the data comes in?

For my application there's no reordering possible within a single stream of requests so I'm thinking of having a FIFO of context objects that will "jog my memory" so that once data comes back, I know why it was read and how to handle it.