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14 years ago

Using 2 timers ?

We are trying to use 2 interval timer (200ms and 500ms) on a nios 2 processor. One is configure as a system clock timer and its work fine., but the second don’t ...
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14 years ago

My code sample is the same of yours, except the different timer name.

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Only one timer works and we can’t read the period programmed

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Even if timer doesn't work, you should be able to read back the programmed period.

This is very strange: timer is one of the simplest devices, very easy to work with.

Are you sure there is no timing issues in fpga configurations? Is your design correctly constrained?