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with so mych of xilinx' lineup having hard arm cores built in, what is the driver for soft cores?
by galangalalgol 3y ago
with so mych of xilinx' lineup having hard arm cores built in, what is the driver for soft cores?
- edrxty 3y agoFlying radiation hardened FPGAs is a big one. Just because a chip exists doesn't mean it's usable for any given application.
- tverbeure 3y agoEase of use. The area of a small soft core is trivial. And having a small CPU core all for yourself and dedicated to manage one piece of hardware without having to deal with an operating system and other processes interfering is incredibly convenient. See my other comment.