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13 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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13 years ago

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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.

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I didn't say it has a sleep mode, I said it has something like a sleep mode, but with no power saving.

That's what it is. You could also take a counter or a while(true).

If I wrote it in a misunderstanding way, then I say SORRY...

But what I wrote now, was what I intended to write...:)