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 ...
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 ...
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.
Hackaday

How A Microcontroller Hiding In A USB Port Became An FPGA Hiding In The Same

When you think of microcontroller development, you probably picture either a breadboard with a chip or a USB-connected circuit board. But Tim Ansell pictured an ARM dev board that is almost completely ...
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 ...