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14 years ago

Burst transfer from memory to Nios II

Hello, I have a hard time understanding how the Nios II handles memory accesses. In our Nios II design we want to use burst transfers to transfer data from SRAM into the caches of the proc...
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14 years ago

Assuming you have enough room in your code on-chip memory then it should be possible to use it for the data storage as well for the SGDMA. You might want to keep those as separate onchip memories for performance reasons though (so that Nios can access one and the SGDMA access the other concurrently).