FPGAs: World Class Designs

Chapter 6. Embedded Processors

This chapter comes from the book Design Recipes for FPGAs by Peter Wilson, ISBN: 9780750668453. As we discussed in Chapter 3, Peter's book is designed to provide the methods and understanding to make the reader able to develop practical, operational VHDL that will run correctly on FPGAs. Of particular interest to me is the chapter on embedded processors. This application example chapter concentrates on the key topic of integrating processors into FPGA designs. This ranges from simple 8-bit microprocessors up to large IP processor cores that require an element of hardware-software codesign.This chapter takes the reader through the basics of implementing a behavioral-based microprocessor for evaluation of algorithms, ...