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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Reduce size of hex file to fit into on chip memory

Hi hex file produced by Nios II IDE for my application is more than the onchip memory that I have. I want to reduce the size of that. I am using the blank project in Nios II IDE and adding my .pt...
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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

We have on-chip memory of 100 KB and the hex file is 241KB.

Should the hex file be less than the on-chip memory.

I am new to Synthesis on FPGA so please guide me on how to use this hex file in the synthesis.

How does "Reduce Code footprint" settings help?

I really appreciate your help.

Raj