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The FPGA dev boards I worked with in a college course circa 2009 had a couple of PowerPC cores thrown in as a bonus, with a whole system for being able to inter
by jffry 4y ago
The FPGA dev boards I worked with in a college course circa 2009 had a couple of PowerPC cores thrown in as a bonus, with a whole system for being able to interface between CPU and FPGA: https://www.xilinx.com/content/dam/xilinx/support/documents/ip_documentation/ppc440_virtex5.pdf https://www.xilinx.com/content/dam/xilinx/support/documents/...
- deelowe 4y agoIt's still common today. The de-10 nano of mister fame leverages the hard processor to great affect.
- moring 4y agoMost FPGA projects need a processor anyway, usually adding a soft core, but a hard core is superior in area and performance -- though you cannot choose the type of core anymore, obviously. I'd argue this is a different scenario because they didn't "sprinkle cores" because they had the area but actually reduced the area needed.