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21 years ago

ISS on Nios II not starting at reset address

Hi there, I am experiencing a problem with the ISS (Instruction Set Simulator) on a Nios-II design. Since my design would not even reach the first breakpoint in main(), I decided to use the &#3...
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21 years ago

The ISS starts executing at the entry point specified in your .ELF file. This is set by the ENTRY directive in the linker script to the function _start:

ENTRY( _start )

The debugger starts at the same place when you download from the IDE.