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10 years ago

Using both SDRAM of DE2-115

I've read that the DE2-115 board has two SDRAM chips.. I've used one of this (sdram_control_4port) to store the odd and even lines of the tv decoder i've used using Verilog. My problem now is that i ...
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10 years ago

The two devices share all their control signals (with the exception of their data mask 'DQM' signals). So, the two SDRAM devices are always accessed together.

There is a 32-bit data bus split across the two devices - 16-bits per device. Use of the data mask could result in 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes being written/read during any single access.

How wide is the data bus that you're currently using? Are you sure you've only "used one"?

Cheers,

Alex