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11 years ago

bemicro cv, nios II, c

I'm pretty sure I bit off more than I can chew, but I'm not willing to give up yet. The class is really about compiler optimization. You pick up the IR spit out by LLVM and optimize it and han...
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11 years ago

My suggestion would be to start here and the suggested Follow-On Courses

http://www.altera.com/education/training/courses/oqsys1000

a) NIOS is a 32-bit microprocessor IP core

b) Qsys is the tool you use to chain together IP cores and specify a system

c) Quartus translates the Qsys output into an FPGA image you can program in your board.

d) After your image is in your board, you use gcc/g++/gdb/Eclipse/yourcreation to execute software in the NIOS you put in your FPGA.

As far as purchases go, you can get quite far with the board you have chosen and whatever computer you already have.