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10 years ago

NIOS is constantly reading from instruction memory and reading/writing to data memory

Hello all, I am still working on my first NIOS design and am having troubles with the instruction/data memory access. Below is a schematic of the NIOS and its peripherals. The NIOS is connected...
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Unless you have a HALT instruction in your ram, I would expect to see continuous reads from the instruction memory. Unless your NIOS has instruction cache and it's enabled,

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At the end of my assembly file, I did not branch to main, or any other label. In doing so, I assume the program halted at the last instruction used. From what I have been able to find, there is no NIOS halt instruction.