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14 years ago

Store SW-Program and Data on CFI-Flash

HI there! I am running a Nios II - system on a DE0-board from Terasic. The flash programmer has successfully programmed the software into my flash memory. I am currently trying to save (non vol...
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14 years ago

If you know which is the maximum dimension of the data stored in flash and you can estimate the size it can reach in future, place the data before the program so you can avoid checking the size of the program everytime you modify it. Or, if you can better estimate the size of the program, do it reversed.

I think you can not find this information in handbooks since it strictly depends on your design constraints.