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16 years ago

Quartus allocates M9Ks for NIOS is 16 block increments - HELP

Hi Folks- I'm having a problem getting use of the the last few M9K unsused blocks in my device. Block RAM for NIOS code and data seems to be allocated by Quartus in increments of 16 M9Ks. In S...
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16 years ago

The problem with this is you cannot use the same memory block for code and data without using a custom linker script. For some reason the linker complains about doing this causing an error when in fact there are perfectly good reasons to do this. We do this in our application and it's one more thing to keep up with having a custom linker script.

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