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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

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altera ported openrisc 1200 to StratixIII device and it requires around 7000 LE

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OpenRisc is not an attractive alternative to Nios. At least not to me.

I made some research and I couldn't find exactly what I wanted. FPGA soft-cores of standard off the shelf micros are usually not too efficient. Currently Lattice cores seems to be the best alternative.