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13 years ago

Read file by NIOS

Hi guys, Finally I could program NIOS to read and write a file from the host computer with fread and fwrite instruction (in debug mode). However, it's awfully slow. For instance, reading a 5MB ...
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13 years ago

Probably the only way to get a real performance increase it to utilize a different interface, if you have one available. i.e. PCIe, or Ethernet. You could use Altera's TSE (or opencores, etc) to transfer the file to the local filesystem/memory.