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14 years ago

What size is 64K x 16 SRAM ?

dear all, am using this 64k x 16 Cypress SRAM in my qsys design and able to use my nios code in it. I presume the size of this ram is 1 Mbit ie 128 Kbyte but am able to use only 64 Kbyte of the...
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14 years ago

SRAM being a volatile memory, it is definitely not capable of working as a non-volatile memory.

Anyway, since you talked about AS configuration and flash, I think you do actually have a non -volatile storage device on your board.

If you can load fpga configuration (with AS mode) from this device, sure you can also store Nios code with sram initialization, if this is what you mean with "programming sram every time".