EDN

A tradeoff between microcontroller, DSP, FPGA and ASIC technologies

This article reviews the relative strengths and weaknesses of microcontroller (MCU), digital signal processor (DSP), field programmable gate array (FPGA) and application-specific integrated circuit ...
Design-Reuse

Design of a 8051 Microcontroller in FPGA with reconfigurable instruction set

This paper describes the design and implementation of a version of the 8051 microcontroller, one of the most commercially used microcontrollers in FPGA with reconfigurable instruction set.
EDN

Debug a microcontroller-to-FPGA interface from the FPGA side

Microcontrollers and FPGAs often work together in embedded systems. As more functions move into the FPGA, however, debugging the interface between the two devices becomes more difficult. The ...
New Electronics

Analogue front end for dsp/fpga/mcu based systems

CML Microcircuits' CMX7861 'FirmCODEC' is a full featured analogue front end for dsp/fpga/microcontroller based systems. According to CML, the device is a combination of codec, embedded signal ...