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as for your project, you use a softcore thus you already have the serial port and memory controller. Then you need to think about how to handle the gps and "sensors" what is the interface to them? maybe the softcore has that interface as well. Then you only need to write software. If the interface is not on the nios then you can do two things, either writing a vhdl component to translate to another interface (usually GPIOs) or write software to emulate the interface using GPIOs.
