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12 years ago

Nios II has no sleep/idle/wfi instruction?

My software is event driven, the idle time is spent in a loop polling for new entries in a message queue, which get filled in by my ISRs. With other controllers, this is the perfect place for a sl...
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12 years ago

If you read the thread carefully you will see that it is said in fact that the Nios CPU doesn't have a sleep mode.