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8 years ago

MAX 10 in place of Cyclone IV

Well, this seems fine to me, but I thought I'd ask the experts before doing it: I've made a VHDL design that's currently working on a Cyclone IV E. It uses the internal RAM (dual port mode), ab...
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8 years ago

Thanks for the explanation. The "Some MAX10 chips don't support pre-initialized memory" scared me, and I ran to the documentation to look it up, but it is indeed very confusing, and the documentation provided is not very clear. I saw on Google that "pre-initialized memory" does sometimes refer to the NIOS II CPU's firmware memory that should be loaded on RAM, or like you said, some "ROM" tables, which is actually pre-initialized RAM. But who knows...