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Never mind the exception vector, what about the program data areas and stack!
Indeed, although it is probably technically possible to execute code directly from flash, the normal boot procedures copy the code from flash into RAM (internal memory or external SRAM/SDRAM/DDR).
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My goal is to use the Flash memory to store the program. I need to sample a large amount of data on the DE2 board and display that data on a PC. I'm using Nios and the JTAG UART to do this but the performance is quite bad using the basic "Hello World Small" template. Instead I intend to use the full template but it requires a large amount of program memory and using on-chip memory isn't feasible so I want to move this to the Flash memory. Is this even possible?
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