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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Can you tell me what NIOS processor is implemented

I am trying to get an estimate of the DMIPS of the NIOS Processor that I am using, Can anyone tell me if it is the /f /s or /e version from the system.h file? It looks like it is being clocked at 12...
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15 years ago

That's the 'e' core. Each instruction takes multiple clock cycles to complete without any pipelining so that will result in a low Dhyrstone score. The 'e' core also doesn't have any cache memory.