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13 years ago

Writing to SRAM from VHDL and using NIOS

Dear All, For a schoolproject I am working on a spectrum analyzer. I have downloaded the Altera University program and I modified de C code so it will display a nice coordinate system. Outside ...
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13 years ago

What you basically need is to create a component with an Avalon Memory Mapped Master interface. Then in SOPC builder connect that master interface to the SRAM, and it will automatically be shared between the Nios CPU and the memory.

You will find more detail about the avalon interfaces in this document: http://www.altera.com/literature/manual/mnl_avalon_spec.pdf