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21 years ago

Using IDT71V416 as 16-bit RAM

At some point I removed the Nios I dev kit and I went to recompile my design yesterday and it couldn't find the IDT71V016 RAM device. I looked at out board and noticed that we use the 71V416, no...
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21 years ago

Dave,

The reasoning is that we cannot possibly test every permutation of RAM available. Instead the we provided pre-fabbed support for the devices on our development boards, and then the I/F to user logic (now Component Editor) to add a custom interface that has the exact width/depth/timing settings that you need.