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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

General questions about memories, configuration and FPGA systems.

Hi, I have done some research on the forum about the topic, but i have still some questions and want to verify and sum up everything. In my questions about system configuration i will refer to ...
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13 years ago

tl;dr

but for first question:

since Nios II is 32bit CPU, then it is much better to use 32bit memory bus. I've tested 16bit and 32bit SDRAM solutions and the 32bit one is way much faster than 16bit... I couldn't achieve more than 100MHz Nios II CPU speed using 16bit memory bus.