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21 years ago

NiosII IDE to Build old Nios project

Does Somebody knows how to build old software project developed for Nios# 1 in new IDE for Nios# 2? I ask SOPC builder to add legacy software components such as "excalibur.h" file, so I can build ...
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21 years ago

Well, I've just finished porting five (yes five) Nios I designs to Nios II. You need to read an 350: upgrading nios processor systems to the nios ii processor (http://www.altera.com/literature/an/an350.pdf)

I followed this and everything worked fine. I am using the standard Nios II so I have no data cache. I've been a little lazy in that I haven't converted all of my peripheral reads and writes to the HAL versions. I will, of course, be doing this in the future.