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19 years ago

tightly coupled peripherals?

I'd like to create a tightly coupled memory interface to a peripheral (specifically, I want a dual port, dual clock ram block with one of the ports connected to a TCM interface on a NiosII proces...
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19 years ago

Make sure your component is dynamic (memory), write latency of 0, read latency of 1, 32 bits wide (4 byte enables). I haven't tried this but that's essentially what you are hooking up to Nios when you use a tightly coupled memory. Don't forget that you can't connect anything else to the memory port since tightly coupled master connections can't be shared.