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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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17 years ago

Arrow Electronics offers the ARM Cortex-M1 which can be added to an SOPC Builder design in place of a NIOSII. Go to http://www.arrowdevtools.com and search for Cortex-M1.