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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

general question about on chip ram

Hello nios community, I have access to an altera nios board with a stratix 1s10 chip on it. I normally use the cyclone version. I recompiled my design and everything seems to be working fine for...
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21 years ago

On chip memory is much faster then the external memory. It can be used as memory, shift registers, and FIFOs.

If you have both then save the onchip memory for things you need to be fast (like code, DSP coefficients, FIFOs, etc...)