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8 years ago

Custom Component communication/ triggering - Possibilities

Hello together, I try to build up a QSYS-System in which a custom component (e.g. custom GPIO) can trigger a second custom component (e.g. custom Timer). Till now I figured out two possibi...
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8 years ago

Nios does not include a vectored interrupt controller, so I would guess that your first idea would be more efficient.

Maybe a better idea would be to simply combine the two custom components together into one. Avalon streaming is efficient, but if you're just using it to send a control signal, then combining the two together might be better.