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14 years ago

Blinking LED - stays on

I was trying to use NIOS to get an LED to blink over a set period. However, everytime the code is loaded the LED stays on. After a couple of hours of troubleshooting I added a print statement f...
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14 years ago

If you make a delay by a while loop, the compiler will optimize it away. If you would like to include the delay, you either set the compiler option to not do optimization, or your should use a timer based delay function from the library.