hello im trying to use sdram on de2i 150 board. im having trouble at using avalon sdram controller. im still new to fpga so please help me. i add my code as txt format.
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Hi, sorry but without a more detailed problem description one can only guess so.. I don't know the de2 board, I got the DE0-nano board and on that the clock for the sdram chip had to be shifted about -54 degrees to make it work, maybe with the your board it is the same. The datasheet of the sdram controller ip, if I remeber correctly, also says something about a fmax of 100MHz for stable design, more speed might be possible but I never tried. The other tricky thing is the avalon fabric itself I was wrestling with the sdram controller ip for quite some time and found you can not only rely on the waitrequest signal to start your read or write action, you have to enable read or write and than you check the waitrequest signal it sounds strange but thats the way I got it working reliably... hope I could help.
thank you for your answer. as you say relying the waitrequest is a wrong thing to do. i managed to make it work but now i had a performance issues bu i think i can figure out how it works. thank you you gave me a nice piece of idea.