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17 years ago

Can't get SRAM IDT71V416 work on Nios II dk Stratix II edition

Hi to all, If I use the standard IDT71V416 controller on a niosII_stratixII_2s60ES development board (two chip in parallel for 32 bit data bus) it works well. But with my custom controller co...
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17 years ago

Right. I think I suffered from the same confusion at first. Even though the SRAM chip may have a 0 ns setup, the signal still have to travel through IO buffers and PCB traces, so real-life setup is more than 0. For the similar reason, you can't run a 10 ns async SRAM at 100 MHz. However, for _synchonous_ sram it's a different story.