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PGigl's avatar
PGigl
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7 years ago

Multiple Nios in Max 10

The design has two Nios processors and hence two Hex files for the processors code. How do you merge the two Hex files and the SOF into a POF. The tools only seem to allow one hex file! ​
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Ahmed_H_Intel1
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6 years ago

Hi,

The question here is "Are these two NIOS processors working separately?" If yes so there is no problem just include the two hex files and make sure you point to the correct address in the NIOS vectors, If you need to control there boot please follow the following multi-core nios example:

https://fpgacloud.intel.com/devstore/platform/17.0.0/Standard/multi-core-nios-ii-processors-reference-design-based-on-arria-10-soc-development-board/

This example uses a main processor to boot another three processors. This is very clear in this example how to boot NIOS II processor and to copy the code to it's memory.

Regards,

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    JD0
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    6 years ago

    Hi, yes the NIOS processors are working separately. And we need procedure to merge two .hex files (NIOS1 and NIOS2) into one .hex file, because in tool Quartus -> Convert Programming File is no way to add more than one .hex file. When add two .hex, the Quartus crashing down, beacuse of adding more than one .hex file. Are you understand?