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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

How are you writing the code into SDRAM?

If (for example) you are using the PCIe slave interface, then you should expose the nios's soft reset signal to an Avalon slave and get to program that writes the code to ensure that the processor is in reset while the code is written, and then takes the nios cpu out of reset once the load is complete.