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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

Can niosII-32 run from 16bits datas width SRAM?

The altera 1c20 kits use two 16bits data width as a 32bits data width SRAM chip, i want to know is it possible to run niosii-32 in one 16bits data width SRAM chip? Thanks.
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20 years ago

You could even run it from an 8 bit RAM chip. Bear in mind that performance will suffer, since the Avalon bus will have to make several RAM accesses to get each 32-bit instruction word.