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13 years ago

find number of elements in external memory

Say I've got 10 32-bits integers in the external memory and the system on FPGA should read all the integers but it doesn't know how many integers are actually stored in the memory. What's the regular...
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13 years ago

Possibly as the first entry in the data set.

Maybe allow multiple such sets, ending with a zero length data set.

The only other alternative is to use an 'end marker' value - but that needs a value that cannot occur in the normal data.