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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Crash

Hi, some months ago I made a program in C++ in MicroC/OS-II installed on FPGA programmed with NIOS processor on Altera board. The software was composed of three threads that mad...
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14 years ago

Your english isn't that bad.

I was thinking that stopping after exactly 2 hours might be the limit of the licence for the nios cpu - I can't remember the actual interval - when you have not bought a full licence.

If changing the code changes the time before the failure that is unlikely to be the problem.

A hardware problem would be more likely to give a spread of 'times to failure' than a fixed time.

A fixed time might actually be a fixed count of some other activity - and be a 'simple' software bug.