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Awesome Dave, thanks. I had no idea that version of the Nios is free.
I'll also look into the papillo stuff, but i want to try and use the hardware i've got.
If anyoneelse has any opinions or experiences i'd still love to hear about them.
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one of the guys I work with keeps telling me, "just get rid of the CPU and do it all in verilog, its easy!".
I'm beginning to think he is right. We have a large system that consumes around 50K ALMs and has a DDR3 controller, a TSE core, and a bunch of custom logic. And we have recently gone to a pure verilog implentation and removed the CPU by creating our own avalon bus masters and stream/sink objects.
good luck!
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