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15 years ago

Nios Instruction Execution Count

Hi everyone, I was wondering if there's any way to know how many instructions a Nios processor has executed. So what I need to do is to start the processor and after say 1M instructions, I want...
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15 years ago

If you enable the level 4 debug module you could probably sample the off-chip trace to count the number of instructions going by.