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Honored ContributorSimple familly and package to run a NIOSII softcore at a non critical design
I´m planning to create a new design composed of a CPU unit added with the usual resources ( timers, program and data memories, etc... ), including some built-in peripheral modules, such as 1 Ethernet, 1 USB, 1 UART and few IOs. I´m aware that probably there are available to sell some ARM-based off the shelf microcontroller IC which meets to these requirements, but I really want to do that with the NIOSII architecture. The project itself consists of a simple home monitoring system accessible by a simple internet protocol, or even via webserver in case of remain enough resources.
However, once the board will initially be assembled by hand during prototyping phase, I wish to select some chip family not BGA based, but sounds like there are no options for families cyclone and stratix: https://cloud.altera.com/ds/migration/?family=cyclone-v Could someone inform if it is possible to make the above design at a simplest family ?
