Taking The Next Step - Altera Nios II Hardware Development Manual

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Taking the Next Step

Congratulations! You have completed building a Nios II hardware system and
running software on it. Through this tutorial, you have familiarized yourself with the
steps for developing a Nios II system:
■ Analyzing system requirements
Defining and generating Nios II system hardware in Qsys
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■ Integrating the Qsys system into a Quartus II project
■ Compiling the Quartus II project and verifying timing
■ Creating a new project in the Nios II SBT for Eclipse
■ Compiling the project
Running the software on target hardware
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The following documents provide next steps to further your understanding of the
Nios II processor:
■ Nios II Software Developer's
for developing software for the Nios II processor.
The software development tutorial in the
■
Interface
in detail how to use the Nios II SBT for Eclipse to develop, run, and debug new
Nios II C/C++ application projects.
■ Nios II Processor Reference
for the Nios II processor hardware.
■ The System Design with Qsys section of
Quartus II Handbook—This volume provides complete reference on using Qsys,
including topics such as building memory subsystems, creating custom
components, and automatically generating interconnect fabric based on a
network-on-a-chip topology.
■ The
components provided free as part of the Nios II EDS.
For a complete list of all documents available for the Nios II processor, refer to the
Literature: Nios II Processor
Nios II Hardware Development Tutorial
Handbook—This handbook provides complete reference
chapter of the Nios II Software Developer's Handbook—This tutorial teaches
Handbook—This handbook provides complete reference
Embedded Peripherals IP User
page of the Altera website.
Chapter 1: Nios II Hardware Development
Getting Started with the Graphical User
Volume 1: Design and Synthesis
Guide—This user guide contains details about the
Taking the Next Step
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