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Evaluation and Comparison of Low FPGA Footprint, Embedded Soft-Core Processors

Published:2017-10-01 Issue:1 Volume:2 Page:23-30
ISSN:2247-0948
Container-title:MACRo 2015
language:en
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Author:

Bakó László¹,Hajdú Szabolcs¹,Morgan Fearghal²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technical and Human Sciences , Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania , Tirgu-Mureş , Romania

2. Bio-Inspired Electronics and Reconfigurable Computing (BIRC) Research Group , National University Ireland Galway , Galway , Ireland

Abstract

Abstract The paper presents three embedded soft-core processor architectures, developed by the authors to be easily implementable while yielding low digital resource usage. These architectures will be compared and contrasted between each-other by introducing a special testing method, based on control algorithm implementations. For reference, the same testing and comparison has been implemented on a well established architecture, too, on the Xilinx PicoBlaze processor. Measurement results and application suggestion are given in the concluding section.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Medicine

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