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12 years ago

Nios II with on-chip Dual port ram between Nios and External DSP

Hello, I'd like to implement a dual port ram using on chip memory, with one side connected to the Avalon bus and other connected to an external DSP. Not sure where to get started; I can not se...
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The 'memory utilisation' of 25% means that you are using 25% of the memory bits, not 25% of the memory blocks.

If something is using a small number of address or data bits in a memory block then the utilisation will be reported as low even though the other bits can't be used.