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Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
17 years agoHi all,
This idea is actually interesting and is not immediately obvious. I believe you are suggesting that the fpga platform can be used as a fast software platform faster than Nios. Somewhere in between a DSP platform and fpga platform. This could be good say for cases where there is a too complex algorithmic processing that is tedious using HDL but easy in software and that doesn't need all the speed of fpga but demands more than the speed of nios. Currently there are tools like C to HDL, or C to FPGA(without HDL), Matlab to HDL core generators, Labview to FPGA(without HDL)...etc. Some of them are meant for DSP software engineers to use fpgas directly. I believe adding Simknutt's idea is relatively viable option in this tool race. Remember also that on the other end an FPGA can be used to hardwire all or a large number of a set of instructions leading to very fast custom computing machines. kaz