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20 years ago

SOPC Builder Components WITHOUT a NIOS?

I was under the assumption that you could use some of the SOPC builder components without a NIOS. For example if I wanted an SPI interface to my FPGA logic I could create an SPI to Avalon bus interfa...
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20 years ago

I went to one of Altera's seminars (got the nice T-shirt as well :-) )where they demo-ed in detail how to connect external devices and CPUs to the FPGA, using SOPC builder, without using NIOS. So yes it is possible.

You could do weird and wonderful things like connecting an 8051 to SDRAM or giving it 10 serial ports.

Yes, you also have to connect it as a slave or master. Slave is easy, master more tricky.

Victor Schutte

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