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Exception Handling.......................................................................................................................5-12

ECC..................................................................................................................................................5-13

JTAG Debug Module.....................................................................................................................5-15

Nios II/s Core............................................................................................................................................. 5-15

Overview......................................................................................................................................... 5-16

Arithmetic Logic Unit...................................................................................................................5-16

Memory Access.............................................................................................................................. 5-17

Tightly-Coupled Memory.............................................................................................................5-18

Execution Pipeline.........................................................................................................................5-18

Instruction Performance...............................................................................................................5-19

Exception Handling.......................................................................................................................5-20

JTAG Debug Module.....................................................................................................................5-20

Nios II/e Core.............................................................................................................................................5-20

Overview......................................................................................................................................... 5-21

Arithmetic Logic Unit...................................................................................................................5-21

Memory Access.............................................................................................................................. 5-21

Instruction Execution Stages........................................................................................................5-21

Instruction Performance...............................................................................................................5-22

Exception Handling.......................................................................................................................5-22

JTAG Debug Module.....................................................................................................................5-22

Document Revision History.....................................................................................................................5-23

Nios II Processor Revision History.....................................................................6-1

Nios II Versions............................................................................................................................................6-1

Architecture Revisions................................................................................................................................ 6-3

Core Revisions..............................................................................................................................................6-4

Nios II/f Core....................................................................................................................................6-4

Nios II/s Core................................................................................................................................... 6-6

Nios II/e Core...................................................................................................................................6-7

JTAG Debug Module Revisions.................................................................................................................6-8

Document Revision History.......................................................................................................................6-9

Application Binary Interface.............................................................................. 7-1

Data Types.................................................................................................................................................... 7-1

Memory Alignment.....................................................................................................................................7-2

Register Usage.............................................................................................................................................. 7-2

Stacks............................................................................................................................................................. 7-4

Frame Pointer Elimination.............................................................................................................7-4

Call Saved Registers......................................................................................................................... 7-4

Further Examples of Stacks............................................................................................................ 7-5

Function Prologues..........................................................................................................................7-6

Arguments and Return Values...................................................................................................................7-7

Arguments.........................................................................................................................................7-7

Return Values...................................................................................................................................7-8

DWARF-2 Definition..................................................................................................................................7-9

Object Files....................................................................................................................................................7-9

Relocation......................................................................................................................................................7-9

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