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19 years ago

Missing writes on Custom board

I have an interesting problem. I have designed a NIOS system that I have implemented onto a custom boad. I have written a simple frimware program to check parts of the system. When I execute the firm...
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19 years ago

Try to use a NIOS without caches - if it then works you should check your hardware access commands (always use IO commands to access hardware and not C pointers).

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Dear stonie,

Thanks for your reply. I am not a software guy, so could you please explain to me what you mean by : "always use IO commands to access hardware and not C pointers" and why this should make a difference when running the code on my custom hardware directly compared to debug mode (which doesn&#39;t work properly)?