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20 years ago

HALT instruction for NIOSII?

Can the NIOS core be put in a HALT state after initialisation of the system? Basically, I use a DMA controller to transfer data from SDRAM to a small internal dual-port RAM and I want to keep the eff...
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20 years ago

Thanks Scott, Mike. That was very helpful. I decided to go with Mike's solution because that worked right away! I also tried to insert a small instruction cache for the NIOS, but nothing worked anymore after compilation. I didn't try to find the solution, but decided to be lazy for today and choose the easy way.

Thanks again,

Arjan