Altera (and probably others) has been shipping ARM + FPGA SoCs for years: http://www.altera.com/products/devices/arm/arm-index.html http://www.altera.com/produ

Altera (and probably others) has been shipping ARM + FPGA SoCs for years: http://www.altera.com/products/devices/arm/arm-index.html http://www.altera.com/products/devices/arm/arm-index.html Interestingly, Altera has basically end-of-lifed that approach in favor of their NIOS II soft CPU. Atom is definitely a bit higher end than NIOS.