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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Will Nios II work with 16-bit SRAM?

I have been trying to get an external SRAM chip to work with Nios II for over two weeks with no success. I have tested the SRAM outside of SOPC Builder with a simple VHDL routine that writes to each...
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14 years ago

Sure it works with 16bit wide SRAM!

You connect SRAM to Nios through a tristate bridge. If the SRAM component is specified as 16bit-data-wide, sopc builder will generate the correct logic to interface properly to Avalon bus.