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13 years ago

Distinguishing between multiple identical Nios systems

Hi, I want to instantiate multiple instances of the same Qsys/Nios system but I can't figure out how to distinguish between them when using the command line tools. I need to run a differen...
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12 years ago

the command line tools (nios2-download and nios2-terminal) have an "instance" parameter that can be used to specify which instance to communicate with. Be careful though, SOPC builder has a weird way of assigning instance numbers. IIRC it gives the number 0 to the last instance, and then give the other numbers in ascending order (i.e. 1 to the first one, 2 to the second one, etc...). I don't know if this was fixed in QSys.