Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
14 years ago

Basics questions on System ID Peripheral

Hello everyone, I am a newbie with a lot of concepts regarding FPGA. I have a question : what is exactly the System ID peripheral ? Why is it important (or not) to include it as an SOPC builde...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
14 years ago

Hi Pdoc,

System ID is for systems involving multiple processors. When you use Eclipse to download software, you can choose the processor that executes the code based on the system ID. It doesn't hurt to include it. As far as I know, if you don't include it, Eclipse will still download the code, but it will complain.