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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

transfer from nios to 64-bit component

Hello, I am currently working on my own slave component. I've written and tested the 32-bit input version and it worked well. Now I have 64-bit input version. I know that nios cpu handles 32-...
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16 years ago

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At the software level, yes.

NIOS II is a 32 bit CPU, it has no instructions to read or write 64 bits at once.

And it's only available with a 32 bit interface, anyway.

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Ok I see the point, but I have a lot of data in hex 64-bit format, so now I have to convert it to binary and split into 32bit vectors and then go to hex, am I right?

Is it possible to send binary vector using IOWR?

Thanks