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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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15 years ago

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeosqt4/embeddedcengine

The above link can download the source code parser that includes a software model of the hardware. The demo code is to show that C like statements can be executed without being compiled to many cpu instructions.

The attachment is a Quartus 9.1 archive of the hardware design.

The final design is to be a custom component used by SOPC Builder as general purpose(programmable) accelerators to lessen the load of the application processor.