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SimonT
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3 months ago

Building a composed component with a instance that has a SYSTEM_INFO parameter

I have an integrated circuit connected to the FPGA. The circuit has an SPI interface and various other interfaces. For portablity of my HDL and SW code I want to use platform designer and build a com...
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SimonT
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3 months ago

Thanks Richard.

I did not knew that it is possible to create the _hw.tcl directly from platform designer. That is brilliant and simplify things a lot.
I have now successfully created a composed with one altera_avalon_spi and 2 altera_avalon_pio instances and called it myCircuit_hw.tcl
Additionally I have created a myCircuit_sw.tcl for the component.

The component is integrated in a parent qsys file with niosv processor and compiles.

When I generate the BSP the, BSP editor shows three Modules, but not the driver defined in the myCircuit_sw.tcl
All three modules have some dependecy. Therefore I want to not only link them in HW, but also have a single SW driver, that handles the communication with the SPI and both PIOs.

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3 months ago

It seems like you're having trouble with getting the required result using the BSP Editor.


Unfortunately, the BSP Editor is not within my area of expertise. Would you mind posting a new question in the Embedded Design Suite category on the Intel Community forum?
https://community.intel.com/t5/Nios-V-II-Embedded-Design-Suite/bd-p/nios-II-embedded-design-suite

The experts there will be able to assist you with your follow-up questions and issues.


Let me know if you have further question related to Platform Designer.

Regards,
Richard Tan