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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 read that somebody suspects the 6 cycles per instruction on the /e core is not really related to the pipeline, but because the /e core uses 16 bit logic internally to achieve very small area size. No idea if that is true, but it would make more sense.