Hackaday

Getting Started With Free ARM Cores On Xilinx

We reported earlier about Xilinx offering free-to-use ARM Cortex M1 and M3 cores. [Adam Taylor] posted his experiences getting things working and there’s also a video done by [Geek Til It Hertz] based ...
Electronic Design

Free Access to Soft-Core Cortex-M Designs for Xilinx FPGA Users

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL), but Xilinx and Arm are making it easier to use soft-core, Cortex-M1 and Cortex-M3 platforms on Xilinx FPGAs (Fig. 1). Through an enhancement to ...
EDN

Express Logic RTOS moves to Xilinx soft-core processor

Express Logic has announced ThreadX real-time operating system (RTOS) support for the Xilinx, Inc. MicroBlaze 32-bit soft processor core. ThreadX is a small, royalty-free commercial RTOS targeted at ...
EDN

Debugging hybrid FPGA logic/processor designs

FPGAs continue to advance, enabling ever more integration of programmable technologies into the heart of embedded systems. Today’s high-performance FPGAs boast hundreds of thousands of programmable ...