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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Issue with polling in Nios

Hi, I've got a custom component that produces some results from time to time, I want Nios processor to monitor the process by polling and whenever a result is produced, it is written to a exter...
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12 years ago

Hi,

you can either use a FIFO and a counter or throw a software interrurpt everytime new data is generated. It depends on your application. If the data is deterministc, you'll need interrupts