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13 years ago

2 Nios II with autonomous peripherals !

Hi All, I am been using a NIOS II core in my application for performing some activites. Now i wish to add another NIOS II to do a independent activity in the same application, which i am curr...
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13 years ago

It is even easier if you don't need to share the memory between the processors. you can just instantiate the two CPUs in your QSys project and connect each one to its memory.

Then in Eclipse you need to create two software projects, each one with its own BSP. When you create the BSP you will be able to select the CPU you want to build the project for.

When running the software, you can also choose which CPU to use, by selecting the correct instance number. I think it is in the "target" tab.