This is a dedicated area for places to post design guides for new and experienced Nios II users.  Feel free to add your own design guides and to leave comments on ways to improve existing design guides.

Complete Embedded Design Handbook (PDF)

• First-time designers guide (PDF)
• Nios II software development (PDF)
  
• System level design (PDF)

Older beta versions available below.

FirstTimeUsersGuide - This is a guide for embedded software developers that are new to designing with FPGAs.  If you are new, this is a great place to start.

ProcessorSelection - This guide discusses the unique benefits of using programmable logic in embedded deisgns.

NiosIICommandLineTools - This guide is an overview to the command line tools that are provided by Altera in the Nios II Embedded Design Suite as well as avaliable GNU tools.

VerificationTechniques - This guide provides an overview of the verification tools avaliable in Altera's Quartus II design software and Nios II Embedded Design Suite.