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16 years ago

Nios II software

Hi, I'm new to developing Altera fpga hardware & software designs. Does anyone know where can I find some literature regarding the direct use of hardware design by nios II software? Example> ...
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16 years ago

I think you'll need to create your own SOPC component to do that, using the Avalon Interfaces. I don't think that using C/C++ code and the C2H compiler will automatically create 5 parallel multipliers.

You may have a problem fetching the data though, because loading 10 integers per clock cycle will require some bandwidth (or an on-chip RAM with a very large data bus)