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17 years ago

Nios II CPU and Firmware access Problem

About the application: We have a multichannel application. Each channel design is based on a Altera Cyclone FPGA, which includes an internal NIOS II processor and an external program 32bit ASRAM (asy...
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17 years ago

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Are there async SRAM that fast at all?

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We looked at this a few months back. The fastest we found was 8ns

http://www.gsitechnology.com/async_8mb.htm

At 100MHz leaves a 2ns margin....Pretty tight!