Begin with nios by writing on a lcd

[Altera_Forum]

Hi all, 

i'm a newbie with the utilisation of sopc and how nios II processor works to begin, i would like to make a project with this simple goal for moment: use SOPC to create my own architecture with a nios processor, this one should then be able to write something on the character lcd i'm working with this dev card : cyclone III FPGA development kit wih the EP3C120F780C7N (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyc3.html) for information, i made a tutorial for blinking leds, but don't find (for moment) something to help me any help or advice is greatly appreciate thanks in advance

[Altera_Forum]

hi 

i've successfully write on my character lcd, and use different pio for controling some vhdl functions around to count some frame and display the count value in the lcd now, i would like to control a memory to store pixels values inside it and then make the nios processor able to read these values i heard about the dma but haven't yet understtod how to use for controling an external memory as a SRAM one any idea how to do ?

[Altera_Forum]

can someone answer me this question please : 

when i create an array in Nios II IDE, where is this array ? i mean which part of my board store this array : onchip_memory ? the program memory ? the read-only data memory ? the read/write data memory ? the heap memory ? or the stack memory ? thanks for any answers

[Altera_Forum]

If you create an uninitialized static array, it will be put in the .bss section (I guess it is what you call the "read/write" data memory). 

If you create an initialized static array, it will be put in the .data section. If you create it as a local variable in a function it will be in the stack memory. If you allocate it with malloc() (C) or new (C++) it will go in the heap memory.