VHDL design of embedded processor cores: the industry-standard microcontroller 8051 and 68HC11
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Schutti, M.; Pfaff, M.; Hagelauer, R.
- Source
- Proceedings Eleventh Annual IEEE International ASIC Conference (Cat. No.98TH8372) ASIC ASIC Conference 1998. Proceedings. Eleventh Annual IEEE International. :265-269 1998
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Process design
Microcontrollers
Application specific integrated circuits
Industrial control
Firewire
Writing
Very large scale integration
Hardware design languages
Application software
Reliability engineering
- Language
- ISSN
- 1063-0988
Driven by the recent advances in VLSI technology, long-standing controller architectures have experienced a revival. The fast emerging IP (Intellectual Property) market is demanding embedded soft cores of well-established microcontrollers such as the 8051 and 68HC11. "System on a chip" technologies enable hardware designers to integrate their board designs, existing of several separate chips, into a single ASIC. For this transition a pool of adequate high level building blocks favorably implemented as technology-independent VHDL or Verilog descriptions is required.