Dave Galloway and Dave Lewis
Altera Toronto
November, 2010
Occasionally a designer needs a soft processor for a very simple task that can be described in a few lines of code. A standard soft processor may be too large for the job, particularly if the design needs many processors acting in parallel. This talk looks at a soft processor which is two to four times more area efficient than Altera's NIOS II soft processor, but is suitable only for very small programs.