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15 years ago

Bad memory estimation in Nios II IDE

Hi, I have remarked an incoherence between memory size stated in SOPC Builder and Nios II IDE. Here is the context : I have a system in SOPC Builder where I use onchip memory to store everyth...
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15 years ago

Check the sizes (and addresses) of the program segments using 'objdump -p'. That ought to tie up with what is being downloaded.

The .map file from the linker might also show what is being included.

It might just be the '.bss' section (zero data) that is included in the program size, but not downloaded.