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12 years ago

NIOS Cores starts executing on just loading the .sof file?? Why??

Hello, I have a multicore system and all cores have defined separate memory space in SDARM. As I load my .sof file, some of the core starts executing. I dint even loaded the respective .elf fil...
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12 years ago

The nios cpu come out of reset with the rest of the fpga image (maybe the sopc part).

You can expose the nios's soft reset signals and drive them from some suitable logic to delay the start of execution.

Depending on how you are loading the code, you may need one of the cpus to start running after reset.