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19 years ago

Is it worth using Tightly Coupled Memory?

I currently use a NIOS-II/f with instruction and data cache, in a Cyclone. I've looked at the tutorial for using TCM: http://www.altera.com/literature/tt/tt_nio...ry_tutorial.pdf (http...
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19 years ago

It depends on what you are doing; tightly coupled memory has the (dis)advantage that it isn't cached. However a large cpu cache rules. It will speed up your application (for example ethernet).