FPGA Tutorial: Free 'Insider's Guide' (2009 Edition)
Altera? Xilinx? FPGA boards or design tools as from Altium or Mentor Graphics? What do users and newbies think about new FPGA technologies? Find out in our free tutorial on FPGAs, tools, and boards.

Mocana NanoSec - Embedded IPsec and IKE Solutions

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Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP)
OCP-IP is a ground-breaking industry association dedicated to making a common standard for intellectual property core interfaces, or sockets, that facilitate 'plug and play' SOC design. To make complex SOC design a reality for a broader audience, the industry needs a complete socket standard that everyone can use, no matter what their on-chip architecture is, or whose processor cores they're using.
preview: http://www.ocpip.org  

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Open-IP Consortium
Open-IP.org is a consortium of intellectual property industry stakeholders with the goal of creating a viable online marketplace for patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property.
preview: http://www.open-ip.org  

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SPIRIT Consortium
Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows One of the key challenges facing the semiconductor industry is to combine IP from various sources quickly and efficiently. This industry level cooperation is developing standards for IP description as well as tools that raise automation levels and cut costs while improving ease-of-use and increasing flexibility in IP selection and integration.
preview: http://www.spiritconsortium.com  

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OpenFire Processor - Free Xilinx Microblaze Clone
The OpenFire soft processor is an open source Verilog implementation of the Xilinx MicroBlaze processor. Like the MicroBlaze, the OpenFire is a 32-bit RISC processor based on the DLX architecture by Hennessy and Patterson. The OpenFire was developed by Stephen Craven, a PhD student at Virginia Tech, specifically for configurable array research. As such, certain features of the MicroBlaze were not initially implemented. The original...
preview: http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu  

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PacoBlaze - free soft core for Xilinx
PacoBlaze is a from-scratch synthesizable & behavioral Verilog clone of Ken Chapman's popular PicoBlaze embedded microcontroller. KCAsm is a lightweight PicoBlaze assembler written in Java. While Ken's version aims toward the most efficient implementation in the Xilinx FPGA architecture, PacoBlaze tries to be as configurable as possible, maintaining source code compatibility and code cycle accuracy with the original PicoBlaze. It also...
preview: http://bleyer.org  

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SoCs: Thirst for smarter devices
Every year the innovation behind Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) seems to make great strides forward. Semiconductor manufacturers are laying down more transistors, enabling designers to make more complex systems. As Intellectual Property (IP) blocks keep emerging, designers are gaining a bigger bag of parts to select from. Meanwhile, tool designers are innovating better ways for more effective SoC development. All these factors are helping produce affo...
preview: http://www.embedded-computing.com   date: 3/21/2008

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The Wishbone II transaction bus: Another grade of speed
Wishbone specifications have been released by OpenCores and Silicore with the aim to provide a standard IP core interconnection scheme to fulfill requirements of modern System-on-Chip (SoC) designs, including CPUs, DMA engines, memory interfaces, peripheral interfaces, and so on. The andEuros company has used the Wishbone specification since its inception and has developed an improved version of the Wishbone bus, called Wishbone II, to propose...
preview: http://www.mil-embedded.com   date: 5/9/2008