Nios® V Processor Software Developer Handbook

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Date 4/07/2025
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4.1.2.2.3. Other Utilities Tools

You might require the following command line tools when building a Nios® V processor-based system. These command line tools are either provided by Altera in <Intel Quartus Prime installation directory>/quartus/bin or acquired from open-source tools.

Table 12.  Other Command Line Tools
Command Line Tools Provider Summary
juart-terminal Altera To monitor stdout and stderr, and to provide input to a Nios® V processor subsystem through stdin. This tool only applies to the JTAG UART IP when it is connected to the Nios® V processor.
cmake RiscFree* IDE for Altera FPGAs To generate a project build-system using CMake.
make RiscFree* IDE for Altera FPGAs To generate the project .elf file using GNU Make.
riscv32-unknown-elf-* RiscFree* IDE for Altera FPGAs GNU RISC-V Embedded GCC toolchain commands.
openocd Altera To execute OpenOCD.
openocd-cfg-gen Altera To generate the OpenOCD configuration file.
elf-insert Altera To inject additional sections into an ELF intended for the Nios® V processor.
elf-query Altera To extract metadata inserted into an ELF intended for the Nios® V processor.