Actel And ARM Announce The Cortex-M1 Soft Processor Core |
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
With more that 2.45 billion products shipped with an ARM processor in 2006, ARM is undeniably the industry-standard architecture for a wide variety of embedded systems. In addition to the processors themselves, ARM products boast a vast ecosystem of development tools, a tremendous range of AMBA-compliant peripheral IP, a huge volume of program code, and broad industry knowledge and support. Soft-core versions of ARM processors have been available in FPGAs for some time. Until now, however, none of these processors was originally conceived and designed with an FPGA implementation in mind. This situation just changed with the introduction of the Cortex-M1, which is the first ARM soft core to be designed from the ground-up for use in FPGAs....more  (0) Comments
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