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SAN FRANCISCO—Fabless ASIC vendor eASIC Corp. this week announced the immediate availability of Freescale's 32-bit V1 and V2 ColdFire processor cores for eASIC's Nextreme NEW ASICs.
According to eASIC (Santa Clara, Calif.), the addition of the ColdFire processors to the company's eZ-IP core library enables implementation of small foot-print, ColdFire cores on Nextreme NEW ASICs. This provides a low-cost entry point for creating customized ColdFire-based applications within consumer, medical, automotive, and industrial markets, the company said.
Nextreme NEW ASICs provide almost three times greater performance of comparable implementations in low-cost FPGAs and lower up-front costs compared with standard cell ASICs, according to eASIC. The 32-bit RISC V1 and V2 ColdFire processors are backed by an ecosystem of development tools, software stacks and drivers from Freescale and other providers such as GNU, Green Hills Software, Wind River Systems, Accelerated Technology/Mentor Graphics, and others, the company said.
The V1 and V2 ColdFire cores for the Nextreme NEW ASICs are available from IPextreme. The cores are delivered in Verilog source RTL and include synthesizable Verilog source code, integration testbench and tests, documentation and scripts for simulation and synthesis with support for common EDA tools.
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