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10 years ago

C2H Request !

Hello mates I managed to develop my C code using nios II (Quartus 13.0 web edition), as far as I know I should accelerate the functions using HDL. I thought there is a tool C2H compiler for Alt...
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10 years ago

The whole C to hardware idea doesn't really work. You end up with much more FPGA resource being used than would have been the case if it had been implemented using proper techniques in a hardware description language (HDL) such as Verilog, System Verilog or VHDL.

The Altera C2H compiler was an extra cost add on product that wasn't available in the free Quartus editions. The modern version is Altera SDK for OpenCL. I think it automates more than the old C2H compiler did, but I'm not sure because I haven't used them.