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11 years ago

DDR3 read/write using NIOS

Hi, I want to write/read DDR3 SDRAM using NIOS II. I have prepared a Qsys system that contains a DDR3 controller with UniPHY, Nios II/s processor and JTAG UART. Is that sufficient? Do I need to...
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11 years ago

You should run just a basic system. If you want to write to the memory from external peripheral or to external peripheral, then you need DMA, otherwise just write to a pointer and you'll be writing to the memory.