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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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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

there are many soft-cores available at opencores.org like AVR core or OpenRisc

altera ported openrisc 1200 to StratixIII device and it requires around 7000 LE, way too much compared to Nios' > 1000 LEs. so even for small control application with program less than 2KB, Nios seems to be tiny enough!