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14 years ago

Nios II basic questions

Hi all, I've done some VHDL coding but I never used Nios II. I need to design a board so that on one side it will connect to a PC (via ethernet or USB) and on the other side it will function as a ...
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14 years ago

Hi WASS,

Thanks for the quick response.

Just to make sure that I understand you correctly, you mean that the SW guys will write the C code in NIOSII EDS and I will write the VHDL code in Quartus. The C code will be compiled into a .sopcinfo file which can be added to my VHDL project as a VHDL entity and then the whole project will be referred to as a standard VHDL project and will be burned to the FPGA using the standard tools (i.e. ByteBlasterII). Am I correct?

Thanks