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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

Yeah, it works. Timing is excellent now, you were right. I forgot the 1ms system timer that I left (I thought dorment) in the SOPC builder, but the HAL picked up on it. It linked a nice little interrupt handler (located in SDRAM) that screwed up my carefully planned timing. After deleting that it was exactly as it should be: with SDRAM running close to 100% efficiency.

Arjan