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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

I run real code on two nios, one has under 4k code, the other about 8k. There is 32k of internal memory, about 10k of which is a big lookup table.

What this doesn't use is any of the Altera support code.

The 4k code contains a multi-channel hdlc controller (doing bit-stuffing and crc in software) that is capable of driving 64 64kb hdlc streams (for telephony). The second nios does the low level hdlc protocol (timers, retransmissions and host interface).