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14 years ago

Control panel: write memory file format?

Using the DE2 Control Panel you can read/write to the SRAM or SDRAM. I am trying to write the SRAM memory contents to a file using the Control Panel. I was hoping to get a text file with add...
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14 years ago

ok, I understand now. It is a binary file which when read in an appropriate hex editor shows the memory contents properly. It is a straight dump but it seems to write the bytes in reverse order. ie. from control panel address 0 is shown as 0001 and address 1 is 0002.

I used a freeware program called XVI32 to load the file in windows.

As you say I just have to figure out a way to save these hex values in an ascii file using the proper editor.

They should add a comment about the file format in the altera documentation.