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Honored ContributorSDRAM Interface to SO-DIMM?
I'm planning a NiosII design and we need a pile of RAM but don't need the high bandwidth of SRAM. It's hard to find SDRAM chips in stock, given their commodity nature, and so I was looki...
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Honored ContributorFrom an engineer (again)
Q) "set up SOPC builder for the maximum and then detect how much is really there (if any) at boot time. Will this approach fail? " A) Running code out of SDRAM *could* fail, unless you were very careful. If your system was just using the SDRAM as buffer type space, and was fully aware of the actual memory capacity (rather than the available max capacity) it *should* work, as long as timing and init sequences were compatible between dimm's.
