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15 years ago

Full On-Chip Memory

Hi, I'd like to know how to determine if the memory space of an on-chip memory is full. In my nios II system, I generated an on-chip M4K memory. It's size is 4096 bytes with a 32 bits data...
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15 years ago

4096 bytes is 1024 words of 32 bits.

The IORD/IOWR macros read and write 32 bit words only, and it isn't an address that you give them, but a register number. When you do IORD(ONCHIP_MEMORY2_1_BASE, 0x3fe), the actual addresses accessed are the 4 bytes at ONCHIP_MEMORY2_1_BASE+4*0x3fe to ONCHIP_MEMORY2_1_BASE+4*0x3fe+3 (0x00011ff8 - 0x00011ffb).

When you do IOWR(ONCHIP_MEMORY2_1_BASE, 0x3fe, "THIS IS TO TEST HOW MUCH DATA CAN A MEMORY SPACE CONTAIN") you don't write the string to the onchip memory, you just write its address, which is a 32-bit word. The size of the string doesn't matter.