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16 years ago

Newbie question on Nios II program memory

Hi all, In Alteras Nios tutorial, the system contains Flash memory, and SRAM. During boot up, does the system copy the Nios program from flash to sram, or does Nios fetch instructions from flash ever...
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16 years ago

Thanks, but by definition, the Nios program must be stored in non-volatile memory i.e the flash. Are you saying that I can set up Nios to either read each instruction from flash OR I could set it up to copy the program to SRAM.

I guess what I am really asking is: Is the flash memory fast enough to read instructions out of?