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20 years ago

Nios II and Hardware/Software co-simulation

Hello, I am interested in comparing the performance of the Nios II processor, with and without a custom instruction that I have developed, when running some benchmarking software algorithms. ...
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20 years ago

Hello Paul,

Just a note if you are testing memory, it is not practical to R/W a large chunck of memory, say over 2 Mbytes while runinng Modelsim PE, this would take about an hour. There is a another version of Modelsim, SE I believe runs faster. Better to test small areas of code or preload parts of memory for your test, while being sensitive to how long memory accesses take while running a simulation.

-Baycool