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Altera_Forum
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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

The nios is basically just an embedded processor.

Since it is made of normal fpga 'gates' it is fairly simple - so easy to model.

You do get the option of writing some extra instructions - which can be useful for optimising very specific logic functions.

You could even modufy the compiler to use them....

'C to Verilog/VHDL' is slightly different