<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jan @ Sep 9 2009, 12:40 PM) <{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=23792)</div>
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the HDL component is blackbox[/b]
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Supposedly a management decision rather than a technical issue ?
That is really not an adequate way of working with NIOS, as it dumps any benefit this system offers. If you can't work together with the "hardware" designers, there is no decent help for this project.
But if you
can add a second CPU in SOPC-Builder, using SOPC-Builder you also can add your own hardware component with an Avalon master interface that accesses the existing "black box" component via the bus (i.e. a kind of DMA controller).
-Michael