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16 years ago

How can i know which part of the SDRAM is not used?

Hi,everyone!:p i am using one altera board with a 16mbits SDRAM, I am practicing DMA transfer when this question came to me : there are some part of the memory is used(in fact a lot of it, my p...
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16 years ago

I guess you are doing a NIOS II design ...? And you mean your software program is 21KB? You can perform an object dump on your compiled program ".elf" file. This will give you the mapping of where things are located in memory. Aside from this, you can monitor your stack pointer to see how large your stack grows.

Jake