Features
- Family of 3 configurable 32-bit embedded processors for Altera® FPGAs and HardCopy® SICs
- Fast (/f core): optimized for highest performance, optional memory management unit (MMU), or memory protection unit (MPU)
- Economy (/e core): optimized for smallest size
- Standard (/s core): balances performance and size
- All support
- Up to 256 custom instructions
- Up to 4 tightly-coupled memories (TCM)
- Configurable debug core
- C2H compiler to convert ANSI C algorithms to hardware accelerators
- SOPC Builder-ready intellectual property (IP) core
- Rich portfolio of embedded peripheral cores (timer, UART, direct memory access (DMA), Ethernet, etc.)
- Complete embedded development suite (compiler, debugger, Integrated Development Environment (IDE), drivers, hardware abstraction layer (HAL))
- Low-cost IP license; no-cost evaluation
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Broad Embedded Software Tools Support
Everything you need to develop robust software applications is provided for you in the Nios II Embedded Design Suite (EDS). You'll feel right at home with the Eclipse-based Nios II Build Tools for Eclipse and a full range of software and operating system support provided by Altera and our partners. Need to boost performance? No problem. You can quickly accelerate your ANSI C application using the Nios II C-to-Hardware (C2H) Acceleration Compiler.
Get Started Now
Start your design today with Nios II processors.
- Learn about Altera's Embedded Processing Solutions
- Download Nios II literature
- Take advantage of Nios II training resources
- Download the Nios II EDS (and the free Quartus® II Web Edition software)
- Jump-start your embedded designs with Nios II development kits
- Accelerate time-critical software functions with the Nios II C2H Compiler
- Visit the embedded user community and interact with other Nios II designers
