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15 years ago

NiosII is slow? Or something I am doing wrong.

Hi all, I am playing with Cyclone II chip. It is custom board and there is ATMEGA16 running at 12MHz and FPGA with master clock 50MHz. FPGA is translating data from internal dualport memory ...
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15 years ago

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Besides, you don't use a softcore for performance reasons. You use it "because it (or the FPGA) is there" ...

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There is full emulation of A500 computer on DE1 bord and softcore 68K is quite fast.

But first I'll try optimisation options as in other reply.