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15 years ago

Problem in creating a custom SOPC device driver

Hi. I created a SOPC custom component. It's a FIFO. I want to add it to a NIOS project. In doing so, I need to write a driver. I'm reading the paper "Developing Device Drivers for the Hardware ...
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15 years ago

You probably don't need to write anything that is explicitly a 'driver' (unless ou are planning to run linux - but then you need a linux driver).

In particular you can really ignore anything to do with a HAL - it will just slow down your code!

For a simple project your 'main' function can directly access the io registers of your custom vhdl.