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10 years ago

Cyclone V, System Time after Reset

hi everybody, I've got a Cyclone V Dev.- Board (Model: E), with a NIOS 2 Processor. I want to read out the System Time from the Dev- Board, and want to set the System Time to the Dev- Board, ...
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10 years ago

+Additionaly to above: I am using a single- Thread - System, not a multithreading system. System in C- Code is creating via NIOS II 14.0

Now i found out that in "System.h" there is a Define called SYSTEM_TIMER_ALWAYS_RUN. Maybe, this should be enabled? It's set to 0 at the moment.

Other idea: Normally you should start the avalon timer once, set the actual time in the avalon_timer, then set SYSTEM_TIMER_ALWAYS_RUN to 1, and you could ask for the actual seconds, so you get the time.

Is this way right?