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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

porting code from SRAM to SSRAM, bursting confusion

Hi all, I'm trying to port some code which used an SRAM chip on a DE1 board, to use the SSRAM chip on a DE2-70 board. My main concern and confusion is the fact that SSRAM uses bursting. ...
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16 years ago

I've made my own controller based on that one. That controller does not allow arbitrary reads for one simple reason: it deselects the chip select while it is waiting for data to return. To make it work, simply assign the chipselect signal to the 3 SSRAM chipselects.

Though, the controller should work if you're using it only with the nios cpu. Why didn't it work for you?