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17 years ago

SignalTap logging to external memory?

Hi, Is it possible to get SignalTap to use external memory for data logging? I got 256MByte of DDR2 memory in my NIOS system, using the Altera DDR2 memory controller. Logging traces to t...
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17 years ago

Peter,

I agree to pletz. As far as i know there is no way to connect external memory to signal tap. So, I would recommend that you built your own trace logic and write the data of interest into memory using a FIFO and a DMA controller.