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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

SOPC builder

Hello, I began my project and now I begin to understand all the advantages of the NIOS. I have to plug a CMOS video sensor to my NIOS II evaluation board. Would it be better for me to use the...
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21 years ago

If you know vhdl,

1. then you have to make your component with registers accessible via avalon bus

2. import it e.g. with SPOPC Builder "Interface to user logic"

3 .you can access these registers with the standard function

IOWR and IORD from your C code, you don`t have to build a driver or library.

I´ve made a small sample clock and c program in the following thread

http://www.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?a...=st&f=17&t=1503 (http://www.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?act=st&f=17&t=1503)

or you can follow the pwm sample from altera.