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14 years ago

NIOS core on DE2 (cyclone II)

I have access to DE2 boards and am interested in putting the NIOS core onto it with simple sockets communicating to a server on a PC. I was wondering if anyone knows roughly how much leftover l...
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14 years ago

It probably depends on how many of the optional features you have in the nios itself.

Remove features you don't need, cut down the size of the JTAG debug to minimum (etc) and it will free up resources.

Simple custom instructions won't use much logic.