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16 years ago

Nios II and Cyclone II confusion

Hi all, I am doing a FPGA project on DE1 board. May I know whether DE1 has Nios II processor? I read a lot of documentation about Nios II but still confuse between Cyclone II and Nios II. I kno...
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16 years ago

Cyclone II is the FPGA a pice of hardware

Nios II is the embedded softcore processor, thats "software"

if you create a design with nios II then you can almost easily port that design to almost any altera fpga

if you look at opencores.org, you will find a couple of well known softcores like z80 or 8051, they also run on your de1