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11 years ago

Accessing SRAM from NIOS and Verilog Module

Hi, I have implemented the Web Server example on the DE2-115 and modified it a bit to send data over ethernet to the DE2-115 board and store it in the SRAM. This data is around 1Mbit . Next I ...
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11 years ago

Yeah you should use SGDMA to transfer your data to SDRAM. Look up Modular SGDMA. There are a lot of threads and examples on this forum on how to use this SGDMA. You still need the nios to write descriptors to the SGDMA, but the actually data transfer is no handled by the NIOS so it is much faster.