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10 years ago

Functional Unit in NIOS

Hi, I am completely new to Altera FPGAs and I want to use NIOS for some of my work. I was trying to configure some functional units on Qsys to no avail. I am using Altera 14.1.0.186 I am ...
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10 years ago

Integer Multiplier and Divider are available under the Arithmetic Instructions tab. If you are using e-core they are disabled.

Floating Point unit is available as custom instructions (separate IP). Go to library and find "Floating Point Hardware 2", add that and connect the custom instruction slaves to Nios custom instruction master interface.