ColdFire core for Cyclone fpgas

IP specialist IPextreme will license the core to Cyclone III customers free of charge through its online marketplace. “The marriage of the V1 core and fpgas gives embedded developers the best of both worlds – being able to add product differentiation without giving up a familiar, proven processor core and the ecosystem that supports that processor core,” said Aiden Mitchell, consumer and industrial product management director for Freescale’s Microcontroller Solutions Group. The V1 ColdFire core from IPextreme comes with a number of Altera specific features, including: area and speed optimised to achieve run at more than 100MHz; a single pin background debug mode interface; and support for Altera’s SOPC Builder, allowing connection to a range of peripherals in Altera’s Quartus II design environment. “We see significant pent up demand from the market for the ColdFire architecture,” said Warren Savage, president and ceo of IPextreme. “The availability of a special version of the V1 ColdFire for fpga customers provides a continuum of implementation options for customers adopting the ColdFire architecture.”