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12 years ago

NIOS beginner- interfacing with hardware module

Hello! I am an absolute beginner in NIOS and would really appreciate if someone can help me with some advice with the following: I have a working hardware module synthesized in FPGA. I actually...
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12 years ago

You can use system console instead of a NIOS, to execute the necessary reads/writes. You would write a program that executes on the PC in a TCL interpreter instead of writing a program that executes on the NIOS. The construction of your hardware component and it's integration to the hardware is basically the same.

But if your needs are even more modest than that, and just need to see "something" control your new component, you can also use the In-System Sources and Probes tool.