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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

SOPC generate and NiosII symbol look

After editing in SOPC and Generating and updating the NiosII symbol, I find that the edited modules are sometimes in a different location on the symbol than they were before. What determines where th...
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21 years ago

The ports on the symbol are added in alphabetical order... so "sdram_foo" as defined in SOPC Builder will have ports below "sdram_apple".

The exception to this is peripherals on a tri-state bridge; these will go into the bsf file in accordance with the name of the tri-state bridge. For example "ext_ram_bus", and all the peripheral ports associated with it, will come before the two SDRAMs I described above.