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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

How to check if the onchip_mem is full?

I'm running AN429 sample code (VIP core) on my 3C120 evaluation board. I add button pio to the SOPC which already have VIP core inside. Quartus can generate ptf ok. However, when I try to build the c...
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16 years ago

All you can do is look at the size of your compiled ELF file. This information is given to you at the end of a successful build. You can also open a nios2 command line console at any time and use the "nios2-elf-size" command on your compiled elf file to see how large it is. This of course does not take stack and heap considerations into account.

Jake