Hi, Greetings from Germany!
Hope I mustn't be an ALTERA employee to say hi.
I'm a NIOS user from the first beginning (since NIOS v1.0!) and have done my one designs based on the old APEX devkit. Actually I'm doing a design with CYCLONE and "all on chip" NIOS.
Had my ups and downs with the ALTERA Software. But overall the NIOS system is a very flexible stuff - I like it.
http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
I'm looking here from time to time what's going on to get some helpfull hint (or maybe to share some experiences with other NIOS guys).
Regards, mschulz.