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12 years ago

Is c2h over with Quartus 13.0 ?

Hi all, that's my first post here in this forum! :) Well, this is my question: is c2h over? it says in quartus 13.0 there is no way to download NIOS EDS legacy tools, and so NIOS II IDE; C2H...
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12 years ago

C2H has been abandoned by Altera a while ago, and IIRC doesn't work with QSys either. Even if it could produce faster systems than a pure software version, it was still a lot slower than a hand optimized component written in HDL. Your best solution is really to learn to use an HDL language and write your hardware functions with it.