This course will introduce you to all aspects of development of Soft Processors and Intellectual Property (IP) in FPGA design. You will learn the extent of Soft Processor types and capabilities, how to make your own Soft Processor in and FPGA, including how to design the hardware and the software for a Soft Processor. You will learn how to add IP blocks and custom instructions to your Soft Processor. After the Soft Processor is made, you learn how to verify the design using simulation and an internal logic analyzer. Once complete you will know how to create and use Soft Processors and IP, a very useful skill.
This course is part of the FPGA Design for Embedded Systems Specialization

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Practicing engineer or graduate level engineering student.
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Create a Nios II softcore processor hardware design using the Altera development flow
List the types of IP available for FPGAs
Use simulation with ModelSim to verify an FPGA Design
Skills you will gain
- Software Design for Softcore Processors
- Softcore Processor Design
- Programmable Logic Design
- Simulation for Verification
- Intellectual Property Integration
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Softcore Processor Development Flow
Writing Software for Softcore Processors
IP Acquisition and Integration
Introducing ModelSim and Simulation for Verification
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- 4 stars14.70%
- 3 stars23.52%
- 2 stars4.41%
- 1 star7.35%
TOP REVIEWS FROM FPGA SOFTCORE PROCESSORS AND IP ACQUISITION
Must-take Course for Hardware Engineeer. This course provides new concept about NIOS II 32-bit RISC Architecture and How HDL Simulation work
I feel I did another small step towards mastering designing with fpga. Thank you!
I was hoping to get more lecture material on writing testbench code.
The course bring good theoric bases to IPCores but leaves short informacion about the Qsys use, memory map and others things that are necesary for system integration.
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