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Altera_Forum
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14 years agoShared memory
Hello, I would like to make a big (e.g. 8Mbyte) buffer for my core, but also share the same DRAM chip with Nios. Here are my options: 1) Use SGDMA and allocate memory in software. 2) Use me...
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
14 years agoI'm just pondering a similar thing myself, but i don't think i'm too clued in on this subject.
This may be a stupid point of view and you probably have this sorted but.... (shoot me down if it is): i would think you couldn't split the memory like that unless they shared a common controller. since the writes and reads would need to be co-ordinated. you would have to do the sgdma control yeah?