The Nios2 processor is a softcore from Altera. This processor has been the first supported by Tiny with a version capable of running pForth.
The new reference platform for Tiny is a custom Nios2 based FPGA system. It has been designed with simplicity in mind and includes "classic" peripherals such as UARTs, SPI, GPIOs plus a 16bits (rgb565) memory mapped linear framebuffer. Still under development, the final design is targeting the DE0/DE1 boards from Terasic with a WQVGA (480x272) display attached to it.
Latest updates
may 12 2010: tiny_nios2_051210 released. nov 20 2009: tiny_nios2_112009 released.
tiny_nios2_051210.tar.gz [bin] [release notes] tiny_nios2_112009.tar.gz [bin] [release notes]
__build instructions__ [host: ppc / MacOS X 10.4] binutils 2.15 [Altera Nios II 8.0] ./configure --prefix=/opt/nios2-elf --target=nios2-elf gcc 3.4.6 [Altera Nios II 8.0] cd gcc mkdir build cd build ../configure -v --prefix=/opt/nios2-elf --target=nios2-elf \ --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --enable-languages=c --without-headers \ --disable-nls --disable-libssp --disable-multilib --disable-threads __precompiled binaries__ nios2-elf_9.1_osx_ppc.tar.gz [instructions] [MacOS X 10.5/ppc] nios2-elf_9.0_osx_ppc.tar.gz [instructions] [MacOS X 10.5/ppc] nios2-elf_8.0_osx_ppc.tar.gz [instructions] [MacOS X 10.4/ppc]
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