Nios(R) II Development Kit v5.1 readme.txt 
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This file contains the following sections: 

o Nios II Development Kit Overview
o Nios II Development Kit Contents
o Important Notes

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Nios II Development Kit Overview

The Nios II v5.1 release is designed to work with Quartus(R) II 5.1 on 
Windows and Linux.

The Nios II Development Kit: 
    o Allows hardware engineers to develop Nios II processor hardware 
      systems targeting Stratix(R), Cyclone(TM), Stratix II, and
      Cyclone II devices using the Quartus II and SOPC Builder
      development environments. 
    o Allows software engineers to develop and debug C/C++ and
      assembly language programs using the Nios II integrated
      development environment (IDE).

For supported operating systems, installation, new features, and
enhancements in this release, please read the release notes
(www.altera.com/support/ip/processors/nios2/ips-nios2_support.html or
/<Nios II install dir>/documents).

For a list of known issues and workarounds in this release please read
the errata file (www.altera.com/support/ip/processors/nios2/
ips-nios2_support.html or /<Nios II install dir>/documents).

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Nios II Development Kit Contents

The Nios II Development Kit is a package of software that includes
several development tools. 
	o The Nios II IDE is based on the open-source Eclipse IDE
          framework. (http://www.eclipse.org/)
	o This product includes software developed by the 
          Jaxen Project. (http://jaxen.sourceforge.net) 
          Jaxen Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Bob McWhirter & 
          James Strachan. All rights reserved. 
You do not need a license for these products.


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Important Notes

o MAX+Plus II Development Environment does not support the Nios II
  processor.

o IMPORTANT: Do not use spaces or any of the characters  
   \ / : * ? " < > | ! in any of your directories, 
   paths or names of peripherals.

