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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

Maybe I should tell you what exactly is my point in doing this. I'm writing my own processor with NiosII ISA, and wanted to compare IPCs. I just wanted to get exact IPC from both processors running my own benchmarks, but looks like there's no way to get the instruction count from NiosII. Thanks everyone.