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20 years ago

NIOS II Low Power board?

Hi, I'm very interested by the Nios II softcore, but I can't imagine the power consumtion of a such board and I need a very low power (batteries powered) and small design: inside A...
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20 years ago

I personally do'nt think Cyclone II is geared for low power applications... for a point of reference, the lowest I have seen my Ethernet uClinux board is 400mA at 5V, so that's way above what you are talking about. That's using LDOs though, so it's not terribly efficienet. Also, SRAM only wont cut it for using uClinux; you will need to go to hte power-hungry DRAM variants.