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ELCE: The state of embedded LinuxELCE: The state of embedded LinuxPosted Nov 14, 2010 1:17 UTC (Sun) by Kamilion (subscriber, #42576)In reply to: ELCE: The state of embedded Linux by giraffedata Parent article: ELCE: The state of embedded Linux
In this case, an Intellectual Property Block, or the Verilog/VHDL gate description of a specific subsystem:
OpenRISC 1000
Most of them have a common 'bus-type' inside the chip; a lot of these open ones are Wishbone based.
See http://opencores.org/ for a list of many more IP Cores. There are thousands more proprietary cores one can license from a company, for example, ARM. Some charge more than others. Some won't allow you to synthesize designs; some will license it separately.
Most of them can be added to the bitstream of a FPGA, a Field Programmable Gate Array (Basically a big block of logic gates that can be programmed to 'be anything') and later, burned into silicon as an ASIC design, after the synthesized FPGA design proves itself in field testing.
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