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FPGA CPUs by individuals

• Joseph H. Allen: TE16
• Tim Böscke: 8 Bit CPU for a 32 macrocell CPLD
• Mike Butts: xr16vx, KIM-RC
• Dave Conroy's PDP-8/X (XCS10 with an XCS05 IOU) and PDP-4/X (XC4010E).
• Tom Coonan: RISC8 Synthesized PIC
• Brian Davis: YARD-1A (Yet Another RISC Design) (announcement)
• Rob Finch: Sparrow (announcement)
• Jan Gray (1996): J32 (Homebrewing RISC Microprocessors in FPGAs)
• Jeung Joon Lee: Reliance-1, PopCorn-1, Acorn-1
• Austin Kim (Lucent), Morris Chang (IIT): Designing A Java Microprocessor Core Using FPGA Technology
• John Rible: Guided Exploration of two FPGA-based CPU Designs
• Johan Eriksson Thelin, Anders Lindstrom, Michael Nordseth (Chalmers University of Technology): The Jam CPU

MISCs (Minimal Instruction Set Computers) in FPGAs

(Links from UltraTechnology's Forth Chips page.)

• Krister Lagerstrom et al, Chalmers (Sweden): Novix in an FPGA
• P.H.W. Leong: MSL16 Processor
• C.H. Ting: P16 in VHDL
• Don Golding, Angelus Research: Forth Processor in VHDL
• Brad Eckert, Firmware Studio: E16
• Rob Chapman, Steven Sutankayo: 8-bit Stack Processor, A Writable Computer (PDF).

FPGA-targetable CPU cores by companies and organizations

• List of FPGA-based Computing Machines
• Advancel: TinyJ
• Altera: Nios
• AT&T Laboratories, Cambridge: JCN
• Derivation Systems: LavaCore (Java)
• Digital Communication Technologies: lightfoot (Java)
• Digital Core Design: DR8051, DR8052, D68000
• Dolphin Integration: Flip-8051
• Ericsson Telecom: ECOMP Erlang processor (PowerPoint)
• Gray Research: xr16, GR CPUs
• Green Mountain Computing Systems: GM HC11
• Lexra: LX4180, LX4280, LX5280
• Nazomi Communications: JStar (Java)
• Ponderosa Design: scc-II Microsequencer
• Sierra Circuit Design: 65c02, 65cx1, 1802, PIC16C7X, 8085, 6800, 6809, 68HC11, 68000
• Silicore: SLC1655
• VAutomation: V6502, VZ80, V8-uRISC, V8086, V186
• Vulcan: Moon 2 (Java)
• Xilinx: KCPSM (8-bit MCU); MicroBlaze (32-bit RISC)

Open Source CPU cores et cetera

• The Free-IP Project: Free-6502, Free-RISC8
• OpenCores: Mini-Risc, OpenRISC 1000, OpenRISC 2000, others
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• OpenCores: Mike Johnson: RISC5x ("...compatible with the 12 bit opcode PIC family").
• OpenCores: Imhof Manuel: RISC_Core_I.
• OpenCores: Gladstone et al: SXP (Simple eXtensible Pipeline) Processor.
• Open Collector

LEON SPARC

• European Space Agency: LEON-1 VHDL Model
• Mailing list
• Gaisler Research
• Metaflow's LeonCenter.com

Configurable CPU cores hosted in FPGAs

• ARCCores: ARC processor
• Tensilica: Extensa processor

Configurable SoCs and FPGAs with hard CPU cores

• Altera: ARM and MIPS for APEX
• Atmel: AT94K FPSLIC Field Programmable System Level Integrated Circuits
• Cypress MicroSystems: PSoC Programmable System-on-a-Chip
• Triscend: E5 8-bit and A7 32-bit configurable SoCs
• Xilinx: PowerPC for Virtex-II

FPGA CPUs in teaching and academic research

• Yoav Freund et al, UCSC: XC3020-based CPU 1990!
• Mikael Collin et al, Märaldalen University Real Time Research Center: SoCrates - A Multiprocessor SoC in 40 days
• Chalmers (Sweden) EDA 335
• Cornell EE475
• Gray Research: Teaching Computer Architecture with FPGAs
• Georgia Tech Altera UP1 Education Board Demos
• Hiroshima Microcomputer Design Educational Environment City-1
• Michigan State's Xilinx University Resource Center
• Universidad de Valladolid (Spain): uP1232 8-bit FPGA-processor; DSPuva 16-bit DSP
• Virginia Tech Hokie RISC
• Xilinx University Program
• Washington University in St. Louis TOY CPU
• Sittler, Henson, Iverson, Simpson, New Mexico Tech: How the Puerco was born, also Puerco links in old projects
• UC Riverside i8051 soft core
• Naohiko Shimizu, Tokai Univ.: My80, m65

Articles

• Jim Turley, Computer Design: Soft computing reconfigures designer options
• Markus Levy, EDN: Processors drive (or dive) into programmable-logic devices

Programmable logic resources

• The Programmable Logic Jump Station
  
• ChipCenter Programmable Logic Devices
• Steve Wilton (UBC), Upcoming and Recent FPGA/VLSI/CAD Conferences
• FPGA 2002: Tenth ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, February 24-26, Monterey Beach Hotel, Monterey, CA.
• Embedded Systems Conference, March 12-16, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA.
• FCCM'02: 2002 IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, April 21-24, Marriott at Napa Valley, Napa, CA.
• FPL 2000
• UC Berkeley BRASS Project
• U.Idaho FPGA Related WWW Links
• Ray Andraka's FPGA papers (CORDIC processors and more)
• Eric Keller's List of FPGA-based Software

FPGA prototyping boards

• Burch Electronic Designs: B3-SPARTAN2+
• Insight Electronics: Spartan-II Development Kit, etc.
• Trenz Electronic: TE-XC2S
• XESS Corp.: XS40; XSA-100; XSV-300, etc.
• NuHorizons: Spartan-IIE development board

Programmable logic device vendors

• Actel
• Altera
• Atmel
• Cypress Semiconductor
• Lattice Semiconductor/Vantis
• Agere (Lucent)
• QuickLogic
• Xilinx

Retargetable development tools

• GCC
• lcc

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