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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

Someone did already some stuff with Mico32 on altera.

I had this link somewhere, but it seems to be down at the moment :

https://roulette.das-labor.org/bzrtrac/wiki/soc-lm32 (https://roulette.das-labor.org/bzrtrac/wiki/soc-lm32)

Anyway, I do applications with my own hal and kernel, this released me a lot from the task of trying to keep up with the ever changing Altera stuff. Remember the days that Altera decided to not support the so called legacy design flow anymore... :mad:

Stefaan