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Altera_Forum
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11 years ago

system console, external memory, multiple masters

Hi guys Im fairly new here. Im working with a cyclone V GX board and have used qsys to add a memory controller in my nios code to control some lpddr memory on the eval board. Im u...
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11 years ago

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Sorry for the confusion. I meant i was abandoning the master_write_from_file and just loop over the memory_write_32 commands to fill the memory

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Yep, I understood that. However, master_write_32 is slow compared to master_write_bytes. Check out the SignalTap II traces in the document I referred to above. You'll gain a performance increase (shorter download time) if you change to master_write_bytes.

Cheers,

Dave