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12 years ago

Fun or no fun with Cyclone V Integrated ARM processors?

Hello, the following I have posted on another Forum but haven't receive many responses. So, I am going to post it here. I've been reading about the new Cyclone V and it's integrated ARM proces...
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12 years ago

To answer your question in the original post, the tools should be similar to other microprocessors. For example ARM's DS-5 is offered to software developers so that they can stick to tools that they are most likely famiilar with. The biggest difference really is that unlike an ASIC you have an FPGA fabric at your disposal to build any SoC system you like. So various hardware and software tools are offered to make designing towards these devices possible to cope with the flexible hardware at their disposal.

I would take a look at this site to see some of the early work already accomplished with these SoC devices: http://www.rocketboards.org/