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14 years ago

Using Scaler II with NIOS II

Hello, I've got problem using the Scaler II from the vip suite with Nios II. It seems that my attempt to write to the scaler's register fail everytime I try. Once the megacore is stopped, ...
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14 years ago

It's possible that the go bit isn't readable and it's expected that you read from the status register to find out if the hardware is stopped. That's just speculation on my part since I don't think the HDL is plain text. I would file a support ticket at www.altera.com/mysupport (http://www.altera.com/mysupport) to get a better description of those registers (and recommend that they improve the documentation)