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16 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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16 years ago

thanks for the responses. Well, I won't be able to use clock cycle, because the minor differences is my point in doing this, I want to benchmark the processor.

The debug module unfortunately is not clear for me how to use it, and I am targeting instruction counts in the order of 1,000,000,000, would that be possible? Does the debug module slow the processor? or is the debug module virtually transparent to the cpu? Thanks guys.