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21 years ago

Problem with the new Nios II 1.1 release

Hello, Altera has released Nios II 1.1 for Quartus II 4.2. I downloaded the evaluation version and installed it. After generating the new system in SOPC Builder and synthesizing the system in Q...
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21 years ago

If you generate the system, how many address lines do you see coming out for your 8 bit port? (I would have expected 10, but maybe you are seeing 12).

Also you said you installed Quartus II v4.2 web and Nios II 1.1, what did you have installed previously? (trying to figure out if it is specific to Nios or Quartus).

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With the new version of NIOS II (1.1) a 8-Bit register slave uses the same address scheme as a 32-bit register[/b]

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In the past whenever I was using registered components this was how I would address them. Eventually your data has to become 32 bit since that&#39;s what the processor will be working with. So I&#39;m a bit confused on how this could be just occuring upgrading to version 1.1 (to me this has always been how I would address the peripheral).