> A softcore is a CPU to run on an FPGA. It's also an unwise search term on the web. Ask me how I know! The big thing that complicates figuring out a transist

> A softcore is a CPU to run on an FPGA. It's also an unwise search term on the web. Ask me how I know! The big thing that complicates figuring out a transistor count for a soft CPU core is that FPGAs have hardware multipliers, which would be pretty big if you had to build them yourself.