If you don’t, why not check out the FPGA boot camps first? The first thing you’ll want to do is grab my GitHub repo. You’ll also need the Arduino IDE (a recent copy) and Intel’s Quartus ...
But there’s a real sweet spot when you have a CPU and an FPGA together ... regenerating the NIOS II core isn’t trivial although the Quartus project files are in the hw subfolder.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- May 6, 2013-- Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the release of its Quartus® II software version 13.0, which delivers the highest levels of FPGA and SoC performance ...