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Altera introduces the Nios^® II family of embedded processors, extending the performance and lowering the cost of the world’s most popular soft embedded processor. 

Designed for use in Altera’s Stratix^® II, Stratix, Cycloneâ„¢ II, Cyclone, and HardCopy^® device families, Nios II designers can achieve performance over 200 DMIPS and spend as little as $0.35 of logic. With three processors and over 60 intellectual property (IP) cores from which to choose, Nios II systems provide the ultimate in versatility, letting designers create the perfect fit for their embedded system needs.  

Nios II Processor Benefits & Features

The Nios II family of embedded processors lets designers adjust the features, performance, and cost of their embedded systems, deploy products to market quickly, extend product life cycles, and avoid processor obsolescence.

Boost System Performance

• Choose from a family of processor cores delivering over 200 DMIPS performance
• Implement any number or combination of processors
• Augment existing processors, adding one or more Nios II processor to the FPGA

Lower System Cost

• Decrease system cost, complexity, and power consumption by integrating processors, peripherals, memory, and I/O interfaces in a single FPGA
• Spend as little as $0.35 to implement Nios II processors in low-cost FPGAs 

Manage Product Life Cycle

• Get to market quicker with easy-to-use design tools
• Avoid processor obsolescence with a perpetual, royalty-free license to design and produce Nios II processor-based systems

Design with Robust, Easy-To-Use Tools

• Accelerate software development with the Nios II integrated development environment (IDE)
• Design systems in minutes with Altera's powerful SOPC Builder system development tool and the Quartus^® II design software

Use Full-Featured Development Kits

• Begin designing with easy-to-use Nios II development kits
• Choose development kits that feature low-cost Cyclone FPGAs or high-performance Stratix FPGAs (Stratix II development boards coming soon!)

Migrate from Nios to Nios II Processors (PDF)

• Learn about the push-button upgrade flow to re-target your Nios design to a Nios II processor

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