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10 years ago

Just Getting Started: General Questions

I'm just getting started, I'm new to the Altera Cyclone V SoC, I have some experience with Eclipse (TI OMAP), and I'm far from a C expert. Although my first language was machine code entered through ...
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10 years ago

1) Altera Edition is a subset of Ultimate Edition that can program more devices and have more features.

2) GCC is not good as ARM compiler. GCC is better under Linux, on Windows there are problems with NEON.

3) Use ARM as application processor under Linux, baremetal programming is not easy.