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12 years ago

Size of C file running using NIOS II ON CHIP RAM

How to figure out how much amount of space is being occupied by the C.c file which is used to to run as an NIOS II hardware ?? For example in the file http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/extern...
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12 years ago

Running out of memory is an old problem. If you need to run software that is bigger than the available onchip memory, then you may want to consider adding an external memory with adequate capacity to your hardware design.

For many traditional microcontroller tasks, 64KB is ample capacity however.