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14 years ago

Loading SRAM,SDRAM or FLASH on DE1, using Linux, without Qsys, SOPC or NIOS

I have a design which needs data preloaded into one or more of NVRAM and/or SRAM and/or SDRAM on a DE1. I am using Quartus II Web Edition 11.1 sp1. I am not using Qsys, SOPC or NIOS, as the d...
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14 years ago

Actually its been booting and been doing lots of stuff for quite a while.

For example, driving (testing) the text mode video adapter I built.

The T80, combined with z80soc, gives a good model to start from.

Its just until now, all the code had to fit in on-chip (FPGA M4K or LE) memory.

In my design, I will eventually have >=72KB of ROM, which is too much to do this way.

{{{ Andy