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15 years ago

Multiple NiosII System

Hello everybody! It's my first post on this forum so a quick presentation to start : I'm a french student in the engineering school Polytech'Paris UPMC and I'm actually working on FPGA for a ...
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Hi Nicolas. I am very interested in this kind of a system. My project is a cpu custom designed to run C code such as you are proposing. I would like to see how it's performance will compare to Nios, but for now it looks like SOPC builder can be used to configure the system with 2 processors(in fact I think the SOPC video does just that. Possibly it would be better to have one processor to wait until the other finishes controlled by code rather than a hard reset. The Avalon fabric used by SOPC could have a master controlling the memory and the 2 Nios accessing the memory via an Avalon slave. Then by sending messages between the cpus one can wait until the other finishes.