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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

New to NIOS

Hello all, I am a moderately experienced fpga programmer but brand new to NIOS. So, I have used SOPC to generate a NIOS II and designated onchip memory to go with it. From Eclipse I have ...
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16 years ago

For that particular action, you're going to want to instantiate an output PIO, 1 bit wide (assuming 1 LED), and hook it up to your LED at the top level.

In your Nios II code, you'd just use a PIO macro to write a 1 or 0 to control the LED. Look at the count_binary example for a decent sample of how to do this.

Cheers,

--slacker