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16 years ago

Nios2 multiprocessor resource usage

For experiments with multiprocessing, I would like to build a multicore Nios2 system with a reasonable number of CPUs, say 16, with at least 4 kilobytes of private on-chip RAM per CPU. Would this f...
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16 years ago

I use DE2 so I'm not sure about DE2 70, but if it has the Cyclone II Device, I would say, probably not. Depends on what other peripherals you want, but even with minimal peripherals, I would think it is hard to fit 16 Nios II cores.

When you compile you project in Quartus, you get a resource utilization summary, so that might help you to get an idea how much resources you have left.

And I don't think they have 16*4K on-chip memory on Cyclone II.