Q4 Issue: Download Nios II Embedded Design Suite & Quartus II Software v8.1

Q4 2008     www.altera.com   Quarterly Spotlight Download Nios II Embedded Design Suite & Quartus II Software v8.1 Get the latest versions of the Nios® II Embedded Design Suite (EDS) and Quartus® II software v8.1 today to accelerate your design process. The Nios II EDS provides all the tools, utilities, libraries, and drivers for developing embedded software for the Nios II processor. The newest version of Quartus II software delivers enhanced physical synthesis for faster timing closure and new verification features for faster board bring-up and enhanced data sampling. The web edition requires no license. Download the latest versions today!   Embedded Software & Tools Limited-Time Offer: Purchase Quartus II Software and Get Nios II Processor Free Purchase Quartus II Subscription Edition software for $2,495 and receive the industry's #1 soft processor at no charge. This package provides a full license for 12 intellectual property (IP) functions including Nios II, NCO, FIR, QDR II, and DDR1/2/3 memory. Take advantage of this limited-time offer today!   Get a Head Start on Your Design With Altera's Embedded Processor Portfolio Altera's embedded portfolio offers the broadest selection of soft processor cores in the industry, from the Nios II processor, the FPGA industry's #1 soft processor, to popular architectures from ARM® and Freescale. Learn more about how these processor cores work seamlessly with the SOPC Builder design tool to give you a head start on your next design. Download Best-in-Class Debugger from Lauterbach Trace32 Get best-in-class debugging for your Nios II design from Lauterbach. Their Trace32-ICD software enables on-chip break points, logic level views of internal and external peripherals, and multiprocessor debugging. Download a free evaluation.  Looking to Add an SD Controller to Your Design? SLS Corp. has a new SD host controller core that operates in both 4-bit and 1-bit mode for data communication. The core is fully SOPC Builder-ready and comes with all the necessary drivers. Download and evaluate this core from SLS today. Literature & Technical Resources Nios II Command-Line Tools (PDF) Download this chapter of the Embedded Design Handbook to learn about the Nios II command-line tools that are provided with the Nios II Embedded Design Suite. The chapter describes both the Altera® and the GNU tools. "FPGA-based diagnostic equipment for use in rural communities" Pldesignline.com Learn how FPGAs and soft-core embedded processors can be used to create an electronic patient diagnostic system that predicts a patient's future physiological state—a potentially vital tool in rural communities where medical care is scarce. Webcasts & Training Learn How to Use SOPC Builder for ARM Cortex-M1 Development Learn to build a complete SOC with an ARM Cortex-M1 and SOPC peripherals in this new training course from Arrow Electronics. The session covers Cortex-M1 architecture and tutorials, and how to build a system from scratch. Recommended Curriculum for Designers Altera suggests a series of training classes to enhance proficiency for each of the following design professionals: SOC Designer Embedded HW Designer Embedded SW Designer Altera also offers instructor-led training in locations around the US: Designing with the Nios II Processor and SOPC Builder Developing Software for the Nios II Processor From the Community Nios Wiki: Nios II UDP Offload Example Achieve gigabit Ethernet throughput for UDP packets using a UDP offload engine for Nios II-based processor systems. This example demonstrates a method of offloading UDP packet traffic from a Nios II system so that it can be processed in hardware rather than in software. Download the example today.   To ensure that you receive future issues of the Embedded enewsletter, please add announcements@altera.com to your address book. As a subscriber to the Embedded enewsletter, you will receive a monthly email newsletter. Altera respects your privacy. If you no longer wish to receive this enewsletter, please unsubscribe. Subscribe to additional Altera email updates and enewsletters, or view/edit all of your Altera email subscriptions. Altera email communications include: Product Announcements & Updates Code:DSP enewsletter Inside Edge enewsletter Webcast & Video enewsletter Copyright © 1995-2008 Altera Corporation, 101 Innovation Drive, San Jose, California 95134, USA ALTERA, ARRIA, CYCLONE, HARDCOPY, MAX, MEGACORE, NIOS, QUARTUS & STRATIX are Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. and Altera marks in and outside the U.S.