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……