> BTW, are there many applications integrating a MCU core with FPGA rather than a AP core? I only have seen Xilinx products that uses Cortex-A core. It's commo

> BTW, are there many applications integrating a MCU core with FPGA rather than a AP core? I only have seen Xilinx products that uses Cortex-A core. It's common enough that you'll have them available as part of the FPGA toolchain , Xilinx has Picoblaze/Microblaze and Altera has NIOS-II