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ABren1
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6 years ago

Is it possible to initialize external RAM (ERAM) from the JTAG .sof or EPCS .pof file?

(i) By modifying the BSP to include the new region and section that points to ERAM (ii) Include in NIOS2 code declaration of global variable and instantiation of variable in that section using "__at...
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JohnT_Altera
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6 years ago

Hi,

The external SDRAM is not initialize from the sof configuration. The external SDRAM need to be initialize by having the FPGA start to performed write into the SDRAM. May I know if you performed that in your design when it is power up or reset?