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19 years ago

Analog Input Into Nios

Hi, I'm a newbie to Nios, but have done some embedded Linux driver development with the PowerPC 823 I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of how to get analog inputs fro...
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19 years ago

You don't need to go as far as writing your own driver, unless you want to . Remember, because NIOS is non-mmu, you can directly access any peripheral in SOPC Builder. So if you have a PIO Component connected to your analog/digital inputs, you can simply access it by initializing a pointer to it's base address and reading/writing it.