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20 years ago

eCos for Nios II 5.1 now available

I'm happy to report that we now have an eCos update compatible with Nios II 5.1. You can download it from the "Download ecos" forum.

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    19 years ago

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    originally posted by jesse@Dec 20 2005, 09:44 PM

    i'm happy to report that we now have an ecos update compatible with nios ii 5.1. you can download it from the "download ecos" forum.

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    Hi Jesse,

    I recently installed the Quartus II 6.0 and NIOS II 6.0 packages. Can you tell me

    if this eCos installation supports the 6.0 versions? If so, great! If not, are there

    plans to modify the eCos package to support the 6.0 versions?

    Thanks,

    Rennie
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    19 years ago

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    originally posted by rgardner@Jun 9 2006, 02:20 PM

    hi jesse,

    i recently installed the quartus ii 6.0 and nios ii 6.0 packages. can you tell me

    if this ecos installation supports the 6.0 versions? if so, great! if not, are there

    plans to modify the ecos package to support the 6.0 versions?

    thanks,

    rennie

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    Whoops! I just saw the reply in the thread "Installing eCOS for Nios II IDE 6.0".

    Sorry. It appears that the eCos installation does work for the 6.0 packages,

    which is great news!

    Thanks,

    Rennie
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    15 years ago

    eCos for Nios II - could anyone say me where I could download it ? The link here does not work.

    Thanks

    Martin
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    15 years ago

    Apparently these links all broke when the forums were migrated to Altera forums...

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    10 years ago

    Where can I get nios2ecos51.exe today?

    Would you like to help me?

    Thanks!
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    10 years ago

    It used to be on the ecosforge web site but this one seems to be down now. I still have an installed nios2ecos tree on our build server and I could archive it and send it to you if you want, but unless you are extremely familiar with eCos and low level Nios2 programming, I strongly urge you to try another real time operating system. There is almost no support for eCos on Nios 2, the port has never made it to the official eCos tree and it's probably better because the drivers are of very low quality and full of bugs. I had to rewrite almost everything to get it to work to an acceptable level. You will struggle like hell to set it up.

    If you don't have any other choice and must use eCos on Nios 2 you can get some (paid) support from ecoscentric (http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecos/ecospro.shtml) or zylin (http://opensource.zylin.com/niosecos.html).
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    10 years ago

    Oh and I forgot. The nios2ecos port needs .ptf files from SOPC builder, so you are stuck with Quartus II 12 or lower.