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21 years ago

Getting Starter NIOS

I'm a ALTERA Quartus II 4.0 user and I very interested in developped NIOS. I've worked for years with microcontrollers and now I'm working with Altera FPGA's. 1º.- What Softwa...
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21 years ago

You have Quartus so all you need is the NIOS II core (there is an eval copy you can download from Altera).

It creates the hardware for you so you don't need to do any VHDL/Verilog.

You write the code in C/C++ or assembly (or Java is even possbile).