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14 years ago

Weather Station

Dear Friends, Can anyone reply if I am going in the right path to develop a Weather Station using NIOS II and the following sensors. 1. For Temperature and Humidity - Sensirion make 2. F...
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14 years ago

Dallas is now part of Maxim ;)

Any reason why you don't want to use a standard microcontroller for this task rather than an FPGA? For those kind of buses I don't really see the advantage of using an FPGA. A simple microcontroller with a bunch of serial inputs/outputs would be a lot simpler.