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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

Questions about programming the NIOS CPU

I'm not sure if this should be in this forum, or in the general forum, but I'll put it here, since most of my questions are software related. Some background on my project: This is be...
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20 years ago

I'm actually doing something similar. Buffering video in the FPGA and then passing off a frame of video over ethernet for display on another machine.

What I'm working on now is a seperate component (VHDL) that buffers and fifos the incoming data and will probablt drop it into memory and then send an IRQ. From there SW can packetize the data into UDP packets and send them out....

For these speeds i think the more you can do without software intervention, the better...