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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

Thank you for the responses. Need to make some clarification.

I have read in a research publication(2011) that it is possible to configure the floating point unit in the nios-f core without

introducing them as custom instructions. I was looking for this feature in the new version and noticed that it is only possible to

introduce floating point support as custom introductions. May be Altera has changed this feature over the years 2011 - 2015. could

you please clarify my understanding?