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17 years ago

USB or Ethernet

Hi, I have designed a board around a Stratix II and I am looking for a quicker and more efficient way to get data from the FPGA (registers read, writes, etc) than using I2C. I do not need to pr...
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17 years ago

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I was able to run the entire operating system for the NIOS out of onchip memory within the Stratix II. With ethernet, I need external memory to accomodate the TCP/IP stack.

Jake

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Hi Jake,

Can you elaborate on this please ? Which OS did you manage to shove into SII's internal memory (and which SII was it ?) ?

Did you use a bootloader for that ?

I've ran SW out of SII's internal memory in a project, but that didn't have an OS.

Thanks