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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Some simple question about NIOS

Hi all. I was able to do a NIOS setup using a SDRAM, SRAM, VGA Controller, and more. It's working fine in my DE2 board, and I was able too, of download all the code in the ECPS succesufully. So ...
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16 years ago

The EPCS needs to be, at least, be big enough to hold the FPGA configuration and the NIOS system image.

The FPGA configuration's size is fixed for a FPGA model, unless you use compression. In this case, it will vary with your design.

The size of the NIOS image will depend on what you put in it.

Regarding program memory, it's your SOPC, you should know what's being used.