Giving system-level designers broader selection of soft processor cores for FPGAs, Altera Corporation announced that Freescale will be delivering a 32-bit V1 ColdFire soft core for the SOPC Builder tool. To quickly and easily create system-level designs using Altera Cyclone III FPGAs, designers can now choose a Freescale, ARM or Altera soft processor core, along with a library of 50 other intellectual property (IP) blocks when using the SOPC Builder tool. SOPC Builder is an exclusive Altera Quartus II design software tool that eliminates the manual system-integration tasks of IP blocks in an FPGA design. Designers can select functions from the Altera or third-party IP core libraries to include in their FPGA.
Altera, www.altera.com
