Core Comparison
| Processor | Developer | Open Source | Bus Support | Notes | Project Home |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSK3000A | Altium | No Royalty-Free | Wishbone | 32-bit R3000 style RISC Modified Harvard Architecture CPU | Embedded Design on Altium Wiki |
| TSK51/52 | Altium | No Royalty-Free | Wishbone / Intel 8051 | 8-bit Intel 8051 instruction set compatible, lower clock cycle alternative | Embedded Design on Altium Wiki |
| OpenSPARC T1 | Sun | Yes | 64-bit | OpenSPARC.net | |
| MicroBlaze | Xilinx | No | PLB, OPB, FSL, LMB, AXI4 | Xilinx MicroBlaze | |
| PicoBlaze | Xilinx | Yes | Xilinx PicoBlaze | ||
| Nios, Nios II | Altera | No | Avalon | Altera Nios II | |
| Cortex-M1 | ARM | No | |||
| eSi-RISC | EnSilica | No | AMBA AXI, AHB and APB | Configurable as 16 or 32-bit. Supports ASIC and FPGA. | EnSilica eSi-RISC |
| LatticeMico32 | Lattice | Yes | Wishbone | LatticeMico32 | |
| LEON2(-FT) | ESA | Yes | AMBA2 | SPARC V8 | ESA |
| LEON3/4 | Aeroflex Gaisler | Yes | AMBA2 | SPARC V8 | Aeroflex Gaisler |
| Navré | Sébastien Bourdeauducq | Yes | Direct SRAM | Atmel AVR compatible 8-bit RISC | Project page at Opencores |
| OpenRISC | OpenCores | Yes | Wishbone | 32-bit; Done in ASIC, Actel, Altera, Xilinx FPGA | OR1K |
| ARC | ARC International, Synopsys | No | 16/32-bit ISA RISC | DesignWare ARC | |
| pAVR | Doru Cuturela | Yes | Atmel AVR compatible 8-bit RISC | Project page at Opencores | |
| AEMB | Shawn Tan | Yes | Wishbone | MicroBlaze EDK 3.2 compatible Verilog core | AEMB |
| OpenFire | Virginia Tech CCM Lab | Yes | OPB, FSL | Binary compatible with the MicroBlaze | |
| SecretBlaze | LIRMM, University of Montpellier / CNRS | Yes | Wishbone | MicroBlaze ISA, VHDL | SecretBlaze |
| SYNPIC12 | Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo | Yes MIT | PIC12F compatible, program synthesised in gates | nbee.es | |
| PacoBlaze | Pablo Bleyer | Yes | Compatible with the PicoBlaze processors | PacoBlaze | |
| CPU86 | HT-Lab | Yes | 8088 compatible CPU in VHDL | cpu86 | |
| xr16 | Jan Gray | No | XSOC abstract bus | 16-bit RISC CPU + SoC featured in Circuit Cellar Magazine #116-118 | XSOC/xr16 |
| JOP | Martin Schoeberl | Yes | SimpCon / Wishbone (extension) | Stack oriented, hard real-time support, executes Java bytecode directly | Jop |
| ERIC5 | Entner Electronics | No | 9-bit RISC, very small size, C-programmable | ERIC5 | |
| YASEP | Yann Guidon | Yes AGPLv3 | Direct SRAM | 16 or 32 bits, RTL in VHDL & asm in JS, microcontroller subset : ready | yasep.org (Firefox required) |
| Zet | Zeus Gómez Marmolejo | Yes | Wishbone | x86 PC clone | Zet |
| ZPU | Zylin AS | Yes | Wishbone | Stack based CPU, configurable 16/32 bit datapath, eCos support | Zylin CPU |
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