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Nios II Evaluation Kit User Guide
The Nios II Evaluation Board
Taking the Next
Step
Congratulations! You have completed the first steps to familiarize
yourself with the Nios II Evaluation Kit. If you completed all of the steps
in this user guide, then you have installed your Nios II processor
development environment, and verified that the Nios II evaluation board
and tools function correctly.
Writing Software for the Nios II Processor
The Nios II Software Development Tutorial, available within the Nios II IDE,
is a good place to begin learning more about writing software for the Nios
II processor. This document will introduce you to the software
development process for the Nios II processor, presented in a step-by-
step format.
The Nios II evaluation kit includes a set of example hardware designs.
The Nios II IDE includes several templates for software example designs.
Table 2 shows which software example are compatible with the hardware
designs in the Nios II evaluation kit.
Table 2. Compatibility of Example Software and Hardware Designs
Software Template
Hardware Design
Small
Standard
Full Featured
Blank Project
O
O
O
Board Diagnostics
Custom Instruction Tutorial
Count Binary
Dhrystone
O
O
Hello Freestanding
O
O
Hello LED
O
O
O
Hello MicroC/OS-II
Hello World
O
O
Hello World Small
O
O
Host Filing System
O
O
Memory Test
O
O
Simple Socket Server
Tightly Coupled Memory
MicroC/OS-II Message Box
MicroC/OS-II Tutorial
Web Server
Zip Filing System
O
O