RECON stands for Reconfigurable which is a collection of different flavours of NIOS-based embedded system. With RECON repository, new user can quickly turn their Altera low-cost FPGA dev board into a more a familiar microcontroller system such as AVR and start making custom logic based off this initial infrastructure.
Directories structure:
hw : FPGA hardare/hdl/qsys files
sw : Drivers/applications/demo