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20 years ago

Disable HAL to reduce memory footprint?

Hello NIOS friends, I am working on a system that requires the time-critical DMA transfer of massive amounts of data between SDRAM and a custom peripheral. I don't want the instruction or d...
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20 years ago

Thanks Scott, good to hear that I am on track. I needed the confirmation only a Nios God can give me... The only thing I added is a seperate section for code (local_ram.txt) and data (local_ram.rwdata). That fixed the linker error-message of overlapping memory blocks. But the load on the Avalon bus is still too high, even with the Nios running in on-chip RAM, so I will define some tightly coupled memory to offload the Avalon bus completely.

Thanks again for the help.

Arjan