If the Altera® Nios® is your embedded processor of choice, then you will be pleased to hear that Altium Designer 6.3 brings full embedded tool chain support for the latest range of Nios II embedded processors.

Working in Altium Designer’s professional coding environment, your code is compiled by the TASKING Viper compiler, producing highly optimized application code that is substantially more compact than that produced by the GNU compiler. Debug your code running on the target Altera FPGA directly from within Altium Designer – on an Altium NanoBoard, a third-party FPGA development board, or directly on your product board.