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Yeah, this was weird: A major negative of Intel's offering is that the Nios V is only available for the Pro version of Intel's Quartus toolchain. I mean people
by ChuckMcM 5y ago
Yeah, this was weird: A major negative of Intel's offering is that the Nios V is only available for the Pro version of Intel's Quartus toolchain.
I mean people can import the VexRISCV verilog and get a faster and better chip for "free" so where does Intel think the value add is here? It is quite curious.
Now it would be interesting if they made hard-logic versions to compete with say the Cortex-M series from ARM or something but this seems like it isn't in the cards.
- tverbeure 5y agoIf the middling performance and lack of compressed instructions aren't an issue, then the automatic BSP generation, the Platform Builder integration, and the debugger ease of use can be a pretty strong arguments. The Nios II/e was good enough for many slow control tasks.
- ChuckMcM 5y agoFair enough, I've been playing around with Litex which puts the Xilinx soft processor tools to shame.