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21 years ago

Does a NIOS II need reset?

Folks, I recently began porting my NIOS II design to its final hardware platform from the 1C20 eval board. During this effort, I eliminated reset by assigning it internally to '0'. My ...
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21 years ago

> You can use the locked output from the pll to and (afterinversion) with the

> reset pin in the top level, and use this for reset to all modules.

The locked signal will toggle prior to actual phase lock -- this can cause

some problems ;-) I still use a delay (along with the pll lock) to drive reset.