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11 years agoI have Arria and Stratix kit boards from Alter and need to have two NIOS II cores running on the same FPGA ... Currently I have one with its own IMEM for code and data.
I want to add a second NIOS II with its own IMEM for code and data . Is it that easy ? Both would target the PCIe IP as a slave and each would have its own dedicated scratchpad data IMEM that the NIOS could access and a PCIe BAR master could access. Is there any example for this or do I reference the programming guide. My main unknown is how Eclipse would handle two instances of the NIOS II core. The intention here is to get two independent activities on the PCIe link where one NIOS II controls one and the other NIOS II controls the other . To try using one NIOS II core and have some "thread arbititration" scheme may be possible but doesn't sound as straight forward.