NIOS + DE2 + Flash Memory + Errors

The JTAG UART Core documentation states:

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The small driver is a polled implementation that waits for the JTAG

UART hardware before sending and receiving each character. The

performance of the small driver is poor if you are sending large amounts

of data.

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Which is why I want to switch to the fast/standard/full driver but it uses a lot of program memory that I can't spare in on-chip memory.