Evaluation and Comparison of Low FPGA Footprint, Embedded Soft-Core Processors

Abstract

Abstract:The paper presents three embedded soft-core processor architectures, developed by the authors to be easily implementable while yielding low digital resource usage. These architectures will be compared and contrasted between each-other by introducing a special testing method, based on control algorithm implementations. For reference, the same testing and comparison has been implemented on a well established architecture, too, on the Xilinx PicoBlaze processor. Measurement results and application suggestion are given in the concluding section.