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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Is NIOS is the answer to my needs?

Hi,

I write my codes in VHDL (I don’t know the C/C++ software very well). In my codes, I have to write at the lowest level. for example, when I needed UART, I wrote it in bit level without any IP core. The problem is that I don’t want to learn the protocols of all communication (and I don’t have IP core for I2C, SPI, Ethernet…), so I thought maybe I could use the NIOS, or SOPC builder to implement the communications protocol and still working in VHDL code ("protocole-NIOS/SOPC" interface with my VHDL code insted C/C++ softwear). Is it possible? Do I have to learn C/C++ software in order to use the communications protocol?

Thanks.

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    Altera_Forum
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    15 years ago

    Nios is a microprocessor, so it must be programmed with its specific instruction set (i.e. assembler) or with the high level language available within the dev tools, C/C++ in this case.