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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

Hi Slacker,

Thanks for that. Now i have one more query.

.sof file is just the configuration file of the system being generated by quartus. And further operation of NIOS processors depends on the application written in Eclipse. So that means, .sof is not aware of what application you are writing in eclipse or what application you want to perform by NIOS. Suppose I jus want a "Hello World" printing on JTAG UART port vis NIOS processor. But .sof is not aware of that, so how could loading a .sof can make processors print "Hello World" still I say the processor to do that by loading the application file(.elf).

I think, your above application is valid after all the application files are built into individual cores.