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15 years ago

A minimal "from scratch" on your own hardware example?

Short version of the question: Where can I find a tutorial on starting from custom hardware to getting the most basic "hello world" NIOS running? Long version of the question: I'm prob...
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15 years ago

In the NIOS workspace, select File-New. You are given the option of creating a new Application, BSP, or Application AND BSP. In the option of creating the BSP, it will ask for the location of the sopc file describing the current version of your NIOS processor. Then it creates the BSP for you.

If you change the processor, there is a right-click option on the application that allows you to regenerate the BSP to match your updated processor.