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Can any of the included software build tool examples be used in NiosII Eclipse for this dev kit? I tried to use a generated sopcinfo file to start a project but the cpu field is not included since there is no Nios cpu in the design (cortex M1 instead) There is no way to manually add this cpu field?
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Hello.
If you want to run example projects for one board on the other board the answer is "no" and it would not make any sense.
As an example it will not make any sense to run a tool that demonstrates the use of a RS-232 IP on an FPGA on an ARM processor (whose RS-232 is completely different from Altera's one) and vice versa.
If you only want to use the Nios II Eclipse as IDE for both Nios and ARM the answer is: It should be possible to integrate an ARM C compiler into the Nios II eclipse so both Nios and ARM C code can be compiled using the same IDE.
Martin