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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Other Processor Cores

I apologise for the naivete of my question but I've just bought a NIOS II development board with a 2.4" TFT LCD screen.

I understand the NIOS II is a softcore processor does that mean I can replace it say with one of the OpenCores ones?

Thanks

Clive

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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    Yes.

    A primary benefit of using NIOS is that the environment is already setup / integrated, while with OpenCores, you're on your own.
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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    Also I suspect that parts of the nios implementation are optimised for the altera fpgas.

    This probably wouldn't be true of any others - so you may not be able to run at as high a frequency.

    (Not that I've looked at any OpenCores stuff.)