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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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17 years ago

http://nibz.googlecode.com just placed up a quartus archive of a 94% of EPM570ZM100C6 MAX IIZ project. The processor should work, is an improvement. has 40 general IO pins and 16 bit RAM (static) memory bus.

No pin placement done yet, a very tight fit.

cheers

jacko