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14 years ago

Device ID

I know you can set your own custom SystemID, but can the Nios processor get the *device* id, so it can work out what actual chip the core is running on ? I have a design that is used on both EP...
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14 years ago

SystemID is like a normal MM slave.

You can simply read the 32bit device id with IORD(SYSID_BASE, 0)

At offset 1 (IORD(SYSID_BASE, 1) you also find a timestamp of the core generation date and time.