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13 years ago

AS Configuration of NiosII hardware & software images

Hi, I have a requirement that I want to program my serial configuration device - EPCS16 with the hardware and software images of the NiosII system that I am building. Upon power-up, I want the FPG...
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13 years ago

The secret to making the code small is to make sure that you avoid large library functions - especially things like printf() and malloc().

You might find that the Altera drivers for the LCD display are over-engineered for your purpose - especially if they try to give you a stdio (or Unix) file interface rather than exposing a small number of functions.

You can get much smaller than the small Altera BSP builds.