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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

Alternatives to NIOS

I'm getting a bit frustrated with NIOS and I'd like to consider alternative soft-cores. NIOS seems to be very powerful for OS implementations, but not too efficient for small microcontroller-like app...
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18 years ago

I'm surprised.

NIOS II should work quitte well with out any OS involved.

MicroBlaze should not work will in Altera arch. as it was designed and hand optimized for the Xilinx arch.

PicoBlaze may work well for you, but it is not really a processor, but more of a control store state machine (OK - a small processor)

Tell us all of your experiences so we all can get a little smarter.