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14 years ago

NIOS II SBT Configuration with EPCS Controller

Hi All, I have a basic NIOS II system with a EPCS Controller used for booting. I have successfully flashed the EPCS device and on power-up the FPGA configures and the NIOS boots. However, ...
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14 years ago

The Altera tools seem to be designed to run their examples and not much else.

Parts of the compiler are optimised for linux - well de-optimised for small code blocks.

I run without ANY of the Altera initialisation (etc) code, I setup %sp, %gp and %et (only used for fatal faults) in the linker script, then jump to my C code.