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19 years ago

Pipelining multiple NIOS II processors

Hi all, I am working on a project that demands pipelining several processors. I lack experience in the part of multiprocessors. So, I was wondering if anyone has tried before the way of pipelined ...
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19 years ago

Be sure that you take care of cache coherency as well. For example if Nios A modifies data in a shared memory that Nios B uses, Nios B may access a stale copy. The Nios II processor uses a write back cache so before handing data off to another processor be sure to flush the cache (or use another means like cache bypassed pointers or tightly coupled memory).