Talk:Nios II

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[edit] All we want are the facts, ma'am

I addressed the disputed text by deleting it. Although it would be fun for the text to be true (since I'm the original Nios II architect), it was overstating the truth. Perhaps in the context of FPGAs there's something to the spirit of the statement, but I'll let others tackle that one.

I also gave the text a once-over to clean up the grammar. A lot more work is needed. Confusion remains between the roles of the configurable Nios II processor generator and that of the SOPC Builder system-design tool. But that's for another day.

KerryVeenstra 03:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Why not place the deleted text in here so we can all have a look at it? As it is now we either have to take your word for it that it even was disputed or trawl through endless diffs of the history files both for talk as well as for the article itself. All I see now is a blanket statement under a rather childish headline; it does not give me a good feeling. --12:21, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Good points. I had done some searching myself. Here is the part that you mention: "The cost-effectiveness and flexibility of Nios and Nios II processors has made them among the most popular embedded processor[sic]. Together with Microblaze, it is probably the best known soft core processor."

The first sentence is a truncation of a sentence from the embedded-processors page of the Altera web site. The truncated version of the sentence is too general to be true. As an employee of the company whose words were (mis)used originally, after I read through Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute, I jumped and corrected the inaccurate statements right away. I imagine that the Wikipedia article should contain only verifiable information, and the survey data that I've seen isn't public, so deletion seems to be the best first response.

I can't find a source for the second sentence, but also it is too general to be true. One might get away with restricting the claim to the FPGA marketplace.

What do you think?

KerryVeenstra 21:05, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Great work so far. It's nice to see the original architect step in. :) --Dolda2000 12:21, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overestimation

Do I smell Altera engineers here? I'm sure the Nios II is used and all, but being "among the most popular embedded processor [sic]" seems to be quite an overstatement, compared to e.g. ARM- or MIPS-based ones. I can't say I know enough about the actual situation to feel qualified to change the page, though, but someone should probably look through it.

There are also quite a number of grammatical and stylistic errors that should be corrected in due time. --Dolda2000 01:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC)