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19 years ago

Reading from an 8 Bit Component

Hi, I connected the Nios to an 8 bit custom component. When I read from a register which contains a 1 as the most significant bit, i.e. all values from 0x80 to 0xFF, the remaining 24 bits get f...
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originally posted by smcnutt@Jan 19 2007, 09:51 AM

if you're reading an 8-bit unsigned value, it's a good idea to store it as an 8-bit unsigned

variable ;-)

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Yes, indeed it is a very good idea to use unsigned char...

I didn&#39;t think of this before.

Thanks a lot, Scott