Nios® II and I2C Master Implementation on
the on the Intel® MAX® 10-10M08 Evaluation Kit -
January 2023
We close out phase 1 of our FPGA articles with
adding I2C port to a Nios® II design. The
Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C or I2C) provides
chip-to-chip communication on a two-wire bus. I2C
has become very popular as more sensor chip
manufacturers provide more solutions with I2C as the
interface bus. For NIOS II, there is an I2C Master
IP that can be added to a design so you can connect
various external sensor and memory I2C devices, but
there is a catch as some extra circuity is needed to
create the two wire interface. The article
demonstrates a solution to create the two wire
interface and communication with a I2C temperature
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Nios® II and the Interval Timers’ Alarm
and Timestamp Functionality on the Intel® MAX®
10-10M08 Evaluation Kit - January 2023
Timing is everything. The Interval Time IP that
comes with Quartus not only provides the date and
time for a Nios II processor but also supports
alarms and timestamp functionality. The paper walks
through a couple of applications that test both. |

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Nios® II + UART Project on Intel® MAX®
10-10M08 Evaluation Kit - December 2022
Serial ports are the most common I/O in any MCU.
Building on the previous Intel® Max® 10 + Nios® II
articles, this article looks at adding a UART to
a Nios® II processor. |
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Nios® II ADC Implementation on Intel® MAX®
10-10M08 Evaluation Kit - November 2022
The previous article covered creating a design with
the Nios® II soft processor. This article adds the
built ADC peripheral to the Nios® II. Taking
advantage of the hardware on the Intel® MAX®
10-10M08 Evaluation Kit, an application will be
written to test the ADC input. As with the other
articles it is the little things that trip a
designer up, and this example is no exception. In
this case, a work around to a generated BSP issue is
required. |

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A Simple Nios® II Implementation on Intel®
MAX® 10-10M08 Evaluation Kit - November 2022
The Nios® II soft processor allows developers to
create their own MCU with peripherals and other glue
logic in an FPGA. The article looks at creating a
Nios® II design using the Intel® Quartus®
development tools, and writing a C program to test
the design. |

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Implementing the ADC on Intel® MAX®
10-10M08 Evaluation Kit - October 2022
The paper explores the MAX 10's built in ADC and the
ADC Toolkit that comes with Intel® Quartus® Prime. |

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Getting Started with Intel® Quartus® Prime
v21.0 and the Intel® MAX® 10-10M08 Evaluation Kit
- October 2022
The first FGPA article discussed how to install the
Intel® Quartus® Prime tools. In this second FPGA
article, we look at creating a couple of circuits
using VHDL and the schematic editor. The Intel Max
10 -10M08 Evaluation Kit will be used to test both
designs. |

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Intel® Quartus® Prime Lite and Nios® II
SBT for Eclipse Installation Instructions -
October 2022
This article
covers the setup for Quartus Prime Lite and Nios®
II SBT for Eclipse for two different development
systems: Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.0.4.
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The Current MCU Strategy for Azure -
September 2022
With Windows CE long gone,
Microsoft has slowly developed a strategy to
support 32-Bit MCUs and connecting these devices
to Azure.
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Azure Sphere SDK: First Look - January
2019
A review of the new MCU IoT offering from
Microsoft
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