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Altera_Forum
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10 years agoDDR3 interfacing with Cyclone V E device
With this Cyclone V E device, what is the maximum DDR3 memory capacity I can interface to? 4 GB or 8GB?
Altera_Forum
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10 years agoThe FPGA itself does not care about how much memory you're accessing. It depends on the board.
The only limitation I see is if you try to use it with a NIOS processor, which is 32-bit limited and uses the upper bit for non-cached access. And because the address space is shared with the other peripherals, effectively 1GB. But you could split this 1GB into "banks" or perhaps chunk it to 8 other NIOS. But the device itself can handle whatever.