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16 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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16 years ago

Using tightly coupled memory also saves you allocating resources to the caches.

You'll still need a minimal instruction cache if you are using the jtag loader.