Is the Nios II family of embedded processors supported in Cyclone III FPGAs?
Yes, Cyclone III FPGAs support the Nios II embedded processor, Altera’s obsolescence-free, user-configurable, general-purpose RISC, embedded soft processor family. Second-generation Nios II embedded processors extend Altera’s embedded soft processor leadership with better performance, lower cost, and the most complete set of software development tools available anywhere. The Cyclone III device family can incorporate multiple Nios II embedded processors in one FPGA, providing savings in cost, footprint, and power efficiency. Cyclone III FPGAs provide you with maximum flexibility to balance performance needs and device resource usage by supporting three distinct Nios II cores, each optimized for a particular price and performance range. All three cores support a single instruction set architecture, making them 100 percent code-compatible.
