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21 years ago

how to place firmware in ROM

I use NIOSII IDE ( Version: 1.1.0 Build: 137 ) to write c software for a design consisting of SRAM, peripherals and a PCI-Interface. Booting is done via EPCS and a short programme initializes all per...
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21 years ago

You can do it with functions, but you must put the attribute on the declaration, not the definition. So your code would look something like this: 

void function(void) __attribute__ ((section (".memory_name")));
void function(void)
{
    /* stuff */
}

Of course the declaration will often be in a header file.