Nios was
Altera
Altera Corporation was a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1983 and acquired by Intel in 2015.
The main product lines from Altera were the flagship Stratix series, mid-ra ...
's first configurable 16-bit embedded processor for its
FPGA
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturinghence the term ''Field-programmability, field-programmable''. The FPGA configuration is generally specifi ...
product-line. For new designs, Altera recommends the 32-bit
Nios II
Nios II is a 32-bit embedded processor architecture designed specifically for the Altera family of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) integrated circuits. Nios II incorporates many enhancements over the original Nios architecture, making it mo ...
.
See also
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LatticeMico8
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LatticeMico32
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MicroBlaze
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PicoBlaze
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Micon P200
References
Soft microprocessors
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