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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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16 years ago

http://nibz.nibzx.co.uk

Well, it's been awhile so here is the NiBZ latest.

Sub VGA 256*288 video

16 bit audio through 1 bit DAC

SPI boot and SD SPI

80MHz in max II

2 (16 bit) MIPS per 10MHz

3 to 1 opcode compression with in place execution

Still only 70% of MAX II 1270 with video and audio and SPI

Fully generic word size

16 bit port (8 ins and 8 outs)