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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

Add the values together and compare against the size of the available memory block!

17k + 12k = 29k I suspect that is a 32k on-chip memory block

28k + 4060k = 4088k Looks like 4MB (4096k)

The other few k is probably bss and other pad space.

(The standard linker script probably puts a gap between the code and data for mmu page permissions)