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15 years ago

Size of RAM needed to store NiosII code

Hi, I'm currently working on porting a project from an Altera Dev Board (Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition) to a self-designed PCB board. Currently, I have some code fo...
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15 years ago

You can use nios2-elf-size from command shell to get information about memory usage.

For more detailed information about memory sections, use nios2-elf-objdump with -h switch.

This will tell you the minimal memory required now. The actual ram size choice should be based on how much headroom you want for possibly implementing new features in the future.