Re: Installing GS RAM card in slots 1-7

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"Alex Freed" <alex_news@mirrow.com> wrote in message 
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>> Yes, there isn't much RAM on the FPGA itself and in fact when I 
>> added the 1KB for mousetext characters it used up what was left 
>> :-(
>>
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> There is no "ROM" but the block RAM inside the FPGA can be 
> initialized from the serial EEPROM along with the rest of the 
> configuration. This BRAM is also dual-port which makes it very 
> convenient for a lot of things. If I don't use most of it in the 
> design, I'm not getting my money's worth :)

Okay :-)

> However in this case it would be relatively easy to move some 
> stuff from the BRAM to external SRAM. Or initialize parts of SRAM 
> by software either from the EEPROM or even from the MMC/SD card 
> and use as ROM.

Not being much of a hardware guy, much of this is over my head.  At 
least for now.

> The CB design is pretty flexible so that almost anything could be 
> done.

I'm struggling a bit but I'm having fun.

Charlie