Well, since everyone is being so cordial, I thought I'd say "Hi".
I'm a hardware engineer here at Altera and designed the Nios II CPU cores.
I'll pop in here from time-to-time to see what's brewing. I'm doing this on my own time
but hope to be able to answer some Nios II CPU hardware-related questions (e.g. caches, pipelines),
issues about processor performance, or low-level software issues (e.g. interrupts, device drivers).
I'd really be interested to hear from users about which Nios II CPU configuration they are using
and issues related to the processor. I'd also like to hear about any new features you
might want to see added to future Nios II CPU releases.