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The best way to store a large data into SDRAM

Altera_Forum
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Hi all 

I need your help. 

how can I store a large data into SDRAM, I tried RS232 but it slow. 

plz help me.
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Altera_Forum
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You know you have a FPGA. You can usse everythink you are able to implement. So why not somethink like USB.

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Altera_Forum
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A SDRAM controller?

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Altera_Forum
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USB is pretty easy to do this with, a long time ago I made a dumb little USB interface to bridge an FTDI chip to SOPC Builder in a schematic. They give you drivers for free and so all you would need is a DMA and maybe a protocol if you want to build more intelligence into it. I don't know what I did with it since I just through it together in a hurry but it only took a few hours to get my PC sending data back and forth at around 10kB/s (Nios II was moving data one by one so a DMA would be way better in terms of performance).

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