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TITLE: CONFIGURABLE SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DEVICES
Vendors who now offer both CPU and FPGA cores on a single
integrated circuit include LSI Logic, Triscend, Xilinx, Atmel and
Altera. Advances in manufacturing CMOS ICs has enabled the
cost-effective production of chips with sufficient capacity to
contain both of these types of circuits. The CPU is generally
used for control and housekeeping functions while the FPGA
provides concurrent logic operations and connectivity or
interfacing.
LSI Logic has teamed with Adaptive Silicon to provide a
programmable logic cell that may be tiled within a standard-cell
IC as needed for one or more applications. The traditional
standard cells and ARM CPU provide the high performance needed
while the programmable logic provides the flexibility to adapt to
new application features such as changes in router traffic or
evolving communication standards. For additional information,
access: Adaptive Silicon
Triscend offers both the 8032 8-bit microcontroller and the 32-
bit ARM7TDMI core with its programmable logic family. For
additional information, access: Triscend
Xilinx offers a choice of the IBM PowerPC, Intel's StrongARM and
Pentium class, and QED processors for its Virtex and Spartan
product line. The PowerPC 405 is embedded as a hard-core in the
Virtex-II architecture and can operate at 300 MHz to produce 420
Dhrystone MIPs. For additional information, access: Xilinx
Atmel offers the popular 8051, ARM and AVR 8-bit microcontrollers
embedded in its programmable product line. A field-
programmable system-level integrated circuit starter kit is
available at very low cost. For additional information, access:
Atmel
Altera offers a choice of CPU cores including the ARM, MIPS
Technologies and Altera's internally developed Nios embedded
processor. For additional information, access: Altera
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CONFIGURABLE SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DEVICES
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DATE: February 2001
TITLE: CONFIGURABLE SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DEVICES
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