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19 years ago

How to freeze NIOS2 during sensitive measurement?

Hi community, we currently design a device where we use logic in a Cyclone for very accurate measuring. Beside the logic for measuring, there is a NIOS II in the same FPGA to processing the res...
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19 years ago

With what are you guys measuring? NIOS peripherals?

Time critical stuff is best done in HDL. Best option would be to perform the measurement in a custom peripheral that buffers the measurement in a FIFO, and if it's too much for M4Ks and you have external memory to spare, create an avalon master. Use an interrupt to get rid of busy-looping, unless it doesn't have any other tasks.

Let the firmware assist the software, that's what SoPC is all about.

Cheers, Roger