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16 years ago

SOPC builder connection issues

Hi All, I am using SOPC builder to use NIOS II processor and 2 on chip dual port memories. I have connected one port of each memory to instruction and data master of NIOS processor. Now I want t...
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16 years ago

You can find some ideas in this document:

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/external_processor_if.pdf

Basically you need a bridge between your external system and the Avalon bus. This strongly depends on what kind of user interface you have; you could access the onchip memory through spi, then you can use the spi to avalon master bridge which is available in sopc builder standard library.