Nios embedded processor
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Nios was Altera
's first configurable 16-bit embedded processor for its FPGA product-line. For new designs, Altera recommends the 32-bit Nios II
. It is now considered obsolete.
Altera
Altera Corporation is a Silicon Valley manufacturer of PLDs . The company offered its first programmable logic device in 1984. PLDs can be reprogrammed during the design cycle as well as in the field to perform multiple functions, and they support a fairly fast design process...
's first configurable 16-bit embedded processor for its FPGA product-line. For new designs, Altera recommends the 32-bit Nios II
Nios II
Nios II is a 32-bit embedded-processor architecture designed specifically for the Altera family of FPGAs. Nios II incorporates many enhancements over the original Nios architecture, making it more suitable for a wider range of embedded computing applications, from DSP to system-control.Nios II is...
. It is now considered obsolete.
See also
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- PicoBlazePicoblazePicoBlaze is the designation of a series of three free soft processor cores from Xilinx for use in their FPGA and CPLD products. They are based on a RISC architecture of 8 bits and can reach speeds up to 100 MIPS on the Virtex 4 FPGA's family. The processors have an 8-bit address and data port for...
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