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Honored Contributorhelp Running image from FLASH directly in cyclon ii
My requirement is to validate DDR RAM. Can anyone help to run boot image directly from FLASH instead of copying it to RAM using boot copier in cyclone ii . I have to validate RAM(writing some content...
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Honored Contributoryou can run a software directly from a parallel (cfi) flash, but not from a serial (epcs) one.
However if you reduce your code to the maximum (turn on optimisations, use the small c library, reduced drivers) you should be able to fit a memory test software in an on-chip memory.
