This tutorial presents an introduction to Altera’s Nios R II processor, which...

This tutorial presents an introduction to Altera’s Nios R II processor, which is a soft processor that can be in- stantiated on an Altera FPGA device. It describes the basic architecture of Nios II and its instruction set. The NiosII processor and its associated memory and peripheral components are easily instantiated by using Altera’s SOPCBuilder in conjuction with the Quartus R II software.