FPGAs are not limited to plain hardware logic and state machines... add a soft CPU and create a powerful combination.

"Soft PrOcessor Core" - or "SPOC"

• Part 0: Hello world!
• Part 1: Main characteristics
• Part 2: Software (i.e. programmer) model
• Part 3: Hardware interface
• Part 4: Software examples/tricks ... coming soon
• Part 5: Hardware debugger ... coming soon
• Part 6: Hardware architecture ... coming soon

June 26th 2005 - get the Spoc files here

• Spoc's "Hello world!" ❯