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14 years ago

Specify memory region which Interniche Stack uses

Hello, is there a way to tell the iniche package which memory region it could use? I have attached a screenshot which shows the memory layout I want to implement and the other screenshot show t...
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14 years ago

Yes this is the part, and you also need to include those functions (ncpalloc/ncpfree) in your project. IIRC they are in a file called optimisations.c in the example project. Those functions are the ones that will take care of allocating the buffers in the on-chip memory, and will set them as uncached (either by setting the address MSB to 1 or by using the more futureproof alt_remap_uncached() function).

I don't think there is a ready made checksum IP available, at least not on the Altera website. You could check Opencores.org, but I don't think it would be very complicated to do it yourself.