NIOS II SOPC Builder Design

A Simple NIOS II SOPC Builder Design!
A Simple NIOS II SOPC Builder Design
Martin Schoeberl
martin@jopdesign.com
August 8, 2006


1 Introduction
Altera’s SOPC-Builder is a powerful tool to create complete systems containing a processor,
peripheral devices and memory interfaces. We will show the steps for ‘Hello World’ example
with NIOS on the Cyclone board Cycore.


2 Quartus Design Flow
All your design les (VHDL les) make up a project in Quartus. A Quartus II project
is dened in Quartus II with just three les: projectname.qpf, projectname.qsf, and
projectname.cdf. Those project les are plain text les and can be edited with any edi-
tor1 .

2.1 Create a New Project
Start Quartus II and create a new projec