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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Custom instruction to access SDRAM

Hi, I'm inexperienced with FPGA's. I want to implement a custom instruction, which calculates an SDRAM address and writes something into. I use NIOS II e and SDRAM controller IP. My question...
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12 years ago

It may sound like a stupid question but why don't you want to use regular instructions to write to the memory? The CPU already has instructions to load and store values to/from the data memory.