De1-soc HPS-to-FPGA AXI bridge
the second you need to know is who are you (your future device): a master or a slave? An AXI master can initiate transactions but the slave cannot, it can only respond to a master initiation.  while the first is what it is very probable that you (should) use the AXI as an IP block in your design therefore the cyclone handbook will not help you but the AXI IP block documentation, user guides, examples, etc... will.

typically, the FPGA development environment integrates the tool to inherit and configure various IP blocks. in altera quartus ii, MegaCore IP Library responds for this.

therefore my advice to you is to learn quartus deeper :-)

good luck.