Example Designs

Welcome to the Nios II Example Designs page. Feel free to post your example designs.

• Small TSE MAC Ethernet Example - This design uses the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet Megacore configured as the Small MAC variation to achieve lower FPGA resource usage.  It was created using version 7.2 of the Altera tools and targets the Nios II Development Board, Cyclone II Edition.
• AlternateNiosBootMethods - This is an example of how to implement your own custom boot copier software using the Nios II processor and Nios II IDE.  Additionally, you will understand the basics of how to externally control the Nios II boot process. 
• InterfacingToThePPC - This is an example of how to interface the PPC8439e to the avalon bus. These examples are not necissarily functional since they were never tested in hardware but are inteded as a help to someone who might be writting their own.
• HighSpeedImageDownloadDemo - This example contains a simple system build on a 1C20 Nios dev board with a Lancelot VGA board. It shows how one might create a high speed download application from a host PC to a Nios II target system via the JTAG UART. This example can demonstrate data transfers between 0.5Mbps and 1.0Mbps consistently between the host and target over the JTAG UART. This download contains the entire source for the hardware and software in this example.
• BootLoaderFlashExample - This example shows how one might create an intelligent flash based boot loader that can analyze multiple possible application images stored in flash memory and choose the latest revision that is valid in the flash, load it into system memory, and jump to it.
• Nios II Embedded Processor Design Contest - Outstanding Designs 2005 & 2006 - Winning entries from the Nios II Embedded Processor Design Contest.  Embedded design papers about Nios II applications in: 
  • Audio 
  • Encoding / Decoding 
  • Encryption / Decryption 
  • Image Processing 
  • Motion Control 
  • Networking 
  • Security 
  • Signal Processing