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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

I had a quick look at the qsys component tcl interface reference (http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/qts/qsys_tcl.pdf) and it seems that you can get the FPGA family name through the SYSTEM_INFO property (table 9-5 page 9-27) but not explicitely the device part number.

I think you'll have to create a PIO port on your SOPC system and add a Quartus TCL script that will get the device name during compilation and use it to fix a value on the PIO port so that the CPU can read it.