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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

SignalTap will not do it for you.

I have written a few internal logic analyzers that made use of DDR2 memory. You can certainly do it; especially to do simple captures comparable to what SignalTap does. But of course you will have to write all of the logic (memory interface, trigger logic).

Jake