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14 years ago

Altmemphy with Cyclone IV E

Hi, I am a university student at McGill working on a project involving the DE0-Nano board. For the project I need to get memory access and I was trying to figure out how to go about it. My prof...
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You can use a SOPC design without using the NIOS processor, you will need to provide your own Avalon MM (memory master) to control the system though. E.g. see this threadhttp://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26904 (http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26904)

Alternatively you can start a non-SOPC project and include a MegaWizard generated SDRAM component. BUT here we are without luck as in QII 10.1SP1 I don't see any support for standard (= non-DDR) SDRAM for Cycone IV (nor for III or II ...). So you will have to 'extract' the one used in the DE0-kit, I suppose.