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16 years ago

Custom sram memory not usable in NiosII IDE

Hello guys I just created a toyboard using a CycloneIII (EP3C5), a 2Mbytes 16bits flash memory, a 2Mbytes 16 bits sram memory, a 50Mhz oscillator, some voltage regulators and a couple of connec...
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16 years ago

You need to activate a special property to tell that your component is a memory device.

I assume that you used the component editor and that it created a *hw.tcl file to describe it. Open that file and look for a section describing the avalon interface:
add_interface s1 * *
look for a line like this:
set_interface_property s1 isMemoryDevice false

and change it to:
set_interface_property s1 isMemoryDevice true