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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

My beginning of nios.

Hello,

I am a newbie. I have a cyclone development board of Microtronix, and the development tools is QuartusII4.1+NiosII SDK. I have read some data in Altera web and know something basic. I also test the demo given by Microtronix. Then I want to do my own NiosII system. I think I should generate a min system and it should run stable. My min system is NiosII+flash(4M)+sdram(8M)+timer+uart.(I want to use uClinux as my OS next.)

Please give me some suggestion and guide.

Thank you.

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    Altera_Forum
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    21 years ago

    Hi,

    Best thing to try is a minimum system with only OnChipRam, and a Uart. You need only to connect 4 pins, Clk, nReset, Rx and Tx. And you should be able to run the hello_world like apllications.

    If this is running, you can add some peripherals like flash, SRAM and SDRAM, ... It is best to add everytime one peripheral and test its behaviour.

    Good luck.

    Stefaan