can't trap custom ITon NIOS

[Julien Chevalier]

Hello,

I use quartus II 4.00 and SOPC builder 4.00 to build a NIOS system on a
Stratix II board.
I enabled the support for external interruptions, add a user defined IP
connected via the provided avalon ahb bridge.
Everything is ok.
Then I try to use the interruption of the bridge, everything on the wire
is ok until the data_master_irq gets high. The iq number is ok, NIOS
makes a couple of instructions more and then stops on a strange adress
(totallly out of the memory map). but it doesn't fetch the ISR code indeed.
The soft uses nr-installusr and is exactly the same as the examples
provided.

I tried whithout any soft isr and initialisation to see if i get the
famous message ... but nothing.

How can I be sure of what is done by the compiler, is there any
restriction that I don't respect ? thanks for all your help and
experience about those interrupts on NIOS systems.

Sincerely

Julien Chevalier

 

[Kenneth Land]

Try this. Go back to SOPC Builder and reset all of your addresses, IRQ's,
and reset and vector table, etc. addresses - even if they haven't changed.

Then rebuild your system.

One thing that I do is put my vector table in its own small on-chip ram to
protect it and make sure interrupts are as fast as possible.

You might want to check out www.niosforum.com to share Nios info.

Ken

"Julien Chevalier"
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Hello,

I use quartus II 4.00 and SOPC builder 4.00 to build a NIOS system on a
Stratix II board.
I enabled the support for external interruptions, add a user defined IP
connected via the provided avalon ahb bridge.
Everything is ok.
Then I try to use the interruption of the bridge, everything on the wire
is ok until the data_master_irq gets high. The iq number is ok, NIOS
makes a couple of instructions more and then stops on a strange adress
(totallly out of the memory map). but it doesn't fetch the ISR code
indeed.
The soft uses nr-installusr and is exactly the same as the examples
provided.

I tried whithout any soft isr and initialisation to see if i get the
famous message ... but nothing.

How can I be sure of what is done by the compiler, is there any
restriction that I don't respect ? thanks for all your help and
experience about those interrupts on NIOS systems.

Sincerely

Julien Chevalier

 

[Ben Twijnstra]

Julien Chevalier wrote:

Hello,

I use quartus II 4.00 and SOPC builder 4.00 to build a NIOS system on a
Stratix II board.
I enabled the support for external interruptions, add a user defined IP
connected via the provided avalon ahb bridge.
Everything is ok.
Then I try to use the interruption of the bridge, everything on the wire
is ok until the data_master_irq gets high. The iq number is ok, NIOS
makes a couple of instructions more and then stops on a strange adress
(totallly out of the memory map). but it doesn't fetch the ISR code
indeed. The soft uses nr-installusr and is exactly the same as the
examples provided.

I tried whithout any soft isr and initialisation to see if i get the
famous message ... but nothing.

How can I be sure of what is done by the compiler, is there any
restriction that I don't respect ? thanks for all your help and
experience about those interrupts on NIOS systems.

I've seen the Avalon interrupt controller act up if the interrupt signal
isn't synchronized by at least 1 FF in the NIOS's clock domain. It
generates a random-ish interrupt number that seems to be <highest defined
IRQ>+1.

Ben