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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Why is Hardware Multiplier removed in the Gen2 nios?

I've just got chance to work with NIOSII/QSYS after a long time. In the classic NIOSII, there are 3 flavors. I was able to use hardware multiplier in the free NIOS core. Now in the new generati...
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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Commercial reasons. A number of IP blocks, that used to be included with the free edition of Quartus, seem to have migrated to the subscription versions over the past few releases.

You could always stick with an older release of Quartus...

Cheers,

Alex