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1 year ago

Nios V Hardware Interrupt Limitations

Hello, Based on the Nios V Processor Reference Manual and AN 978 Nios V Processor Migration Guidelines, Nios V supports only 16 hardware interrupts, whereas Nios II supports 32. Additionally, the Ex...
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1 year ago

Hello,

Thanks for your response.

Do you know in which future Quartus version the number of hardware interrupts for Nios-V will be increased?

In the meantime, we may need to develop a custom "External Interrupt Controller" to aggregate multiple peripheral interrupts into a single interrupt for the processor.

Best regards.