Design-Reuse

FPGA Implementation of DLX Microprocessor With WISHBONE SoC Bus

DLX is an open source microprocessor, it’s free and it has never been implemented in a commercial ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) design. The objective of this project is to use the ...
Electronic Design

Solutions Mitigate Mixed-Signal SoC Implementation Headaches

The concept of silicon realization, as defined in the Cadence EDA360 vision paper, represents everything required to produce a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design in silicon. 1 Silicon realization addresses ...
EDN

FPGA-based rapid prototyping of ASIC, ASSP, and SoC designs

ASIC designs continue to increase in size, complexity, and cost (for the purpose of these discussions, the term ASIC is assumed to encompass ASSP and SoC devices). At the same time, aggressive ...
EDN

ARM-based SoC FPGAs

Altera Corporation today unveiled its family of ARM-based SoC FPGAs, integrating 28-nm Cyclone® V and Arria® V FPGA fabric, a dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Adding NoCs To FPGA SoCs

FPGA SoCs straddle the line between flexibility and performance by combining elements of both FPGAs and ASICs. But as they find a home in more safety- and mission-critical markets, they also are ...