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15 years ago

Sdram access in HDL and Nios II

Hi I'm fairly new to FPGA programming. I would like to use the onboard sdram memory of my DE2-70 board to pass data between c++ software, running on a Nios II cpu and a verilog component. W...
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15 years ago

this is a bit hard to explain over the web, but its pretty easy to do. if you put your mouse over the slave port on your memory, you should see buss lines show up. You need to click the node to connect that particular slave to your master you want to be connected to it.

You can more than one master hooked to the same slave. There is an arbitor inserted for you by the avalon fabric. hope that helps.