Micro-sequencing crams 8051 into tiny FPGA space

Californian start-up MicroCore Labs has announced a 8051 soft processor core, four of which will fit into 1227 LUTs on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA. “Because it is based on a microsequencer, this is even smaller than a single-core gate-based 8051,” the company founder, known simply as Edward, told Electronics Weekly. Called MCL51, a single core ...

Micro-sequencing crams 8051 into tiny FPGA space

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