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15 years ago

TCM speed advantage over onchip RAM?

(Please excuse if my ignorance of cache and bus technologies shows through my question) My NIOS FPGA application only uses on-chip RAM for code and data storage (no ext mem). Is there any spee...
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15 years ago

it will reduce latency, so you should see a gain if you have a lot of memory accesses, especially random. The actual gain that you have in practise depends a lot on your application.