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20 years ago

External Ram doesn't show up in NIOS cpu settings

Hi All, I wanted to interface NIOS with a Cypress Static RAM instead of using the usual IDT RAM (which is present on the NIOS development board). I created a new component and specified avalon ...
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20 years ago

Hello,

My first guess would be that when you created the interface to user logic, you chose "register slave" (or something like that), rather than "memory slave" -- this setting sets a value which the tools look at to determine whether your interface is a memory device that can be used for code, data, exceptions, etc.