newbie question: Processors

Altera_Forum · ‎08-08-2008

Hi,

I am a newbie with FPGAs and softcore-processors.

I bought a altera board and used the nios II processor.

Now my question:

Is it possible to use other procossors on the altera board as the nios?

For example is it (theoretically) possible to use a MicroBlaze processor on it? why not?

Or the openSource processors. Are there any porting necessary for the different FPGA (like the cyclone)?

Thanks a lot!!!

bmxy

Altera_Forum · ‎08-08-2008

Have a look at this thread:

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2236

Altera_Forum · ‎08-08-2008

Ofcourse, you can implement other processors on Altera FPGA, but you need to create all support for that too in order to get it going.