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16 years ago

off-chip ram issue..

hi,

we created off-chip ram verilog code with avalon slave,but this off-chip ram is not visible for reset vector and exception vector of nios cpu and also this is not visible for data and programe memory in the nios IDE. so can you please provide a design example for above mentioned application

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    Open the component editor on your custom component, go to the Interfaces tab, and in your Avalon slave interface, open the "Deprecated" section and check the "Memory device" option.

    Contrary to what the name suggests this option isn't deprecated at all and is required to use the device as memory in the IDE.
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    how to access the megawizard ram from nios IDE......

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    Open the component editor on your custom component, go to the Interfaces tab, and in your Avalon slave interface, open the "Deprecated" section and check the "Memory device" option.

    Contrary to what the name suggests this option isn't deprecated at all and is required to use the device as memory in the IDE.

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    The procedure I described must be made from SOPC builder, not the IDE. After that you must regenerate the SOPC system. Then go to the system library properties in the IDE and the RAM should be there.