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13 years ago

Nios C-Code Size

Sorry if I am being a bit thick here. Been programming VHDL forever but C is still a little bit of a mystery to me. Can someone please tell me if there is a quick and easy way of working out ho...
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13 years ago

Getting the nios to run a few k of code is not that dissicult.

The multi-channel soft-hdlc code I use is under 3k code (and 12k of lookup tables), and written in C. It would be a little smaller in assembler, but not much.

The problem is that Altera don't give you a sensible starting point for very small projects - the example that monitors the push buttons and changes the leds could be very small indeed.