Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorI'm working with the PCIe-Core as a slave. That means I have a Host-Computer, where my FPGA is plugged in as an extension-card. In my Case you can't use the Altera drivers for NIOS. So I had to write my own driver (based on pci_debug for linux). But if you want to use the NIOS as Host-Computer, the export-function to NIOS IDE should implement every driver for every (Altera) core you use in your sopc-design. Your self-made cores can't be supported by altera-drivers, because the only person who knows how the cores work is you.
In short: If you write a sopc component by yourself, you also have to write the NIOS-Driver by yourself.
