EDN

FPGA Soft Processor Design Considerations

With so many available processor design options design teams must make the difficult decision to choose the solution that best fits their specific project requirements, while supporting extended ...
Electronic Design

Embedded: Real-Time Operating System Supports FPGA Soft Processor

ThreadX from Express Logic now works with the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit 6.1i (EDK) and supports the Xilinx 32-bit MicroBlaze soft processor. The MicroBlaze processor uses a Harvard-style RISC ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Design Tradeoffs Getting Tougher

FPGAs are getting larger, more complex, and significantly harder to verify and debug. In the past, FPGAs were considered a relatively quick and simple way to get to market before committing to the ...
EDN

Debugging hybrid FPGA logic/processor designs

FPGAs continue to advance, enabling ever more integration of programmable technologies into the heart of embedded systems. Today’s high-performance FPGAs boast hundreds of thousands of programmable ...