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32-bit embedded processor offered through open source license

09/19/2006  II
Relevance: 6.13
SAN FRANCISCO — Programmable logic supplier Lattice Semiconductor Corp. Monday introduced a 32-bit soft microprocessor optimized for Lattice FPGAs.
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Sun: Open source Niagara 'overwhelmingly successful'

08/07/2007  IIIII
Relevance: 6.02
Server and software company continues efforts to publish source codes of its chip designs; launches Niagara 2 microprocessor.
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Microcross Releases GNU X-Tools v4.0

01/07/2007  IIIIIIIIII
Relevance: 5.89
Microcross has released GNU X-Tools v4.0 professional embedded development tools for six microprocessor families, including ARM.
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Sun says OpenSparc is gaining traction

10/03/2006  IIII
Relevance: 5.66
Sun was set to report Monday that 60 percent of the trial units of Niagara, an open-source product, have been ordered by new customers. This indicates that the company is gaining market share from rivals such as IBM Corp.'s Power and Intel Corp.'s Itanium high-performance microprocessor architectures.
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Open source processor core is first for Lattice

09/20/2006  IIIII
Relevance: 5.57
Lattice Semiconductor has introduced a 32-bit soft core microprocessor for its FPGAs. Interestingly, it is available as open source software code with Eclipse C development tools which are downloadable from the web.
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Free software program development environment supports CoreMP7 ...

08/24/2006  IIII
Relevance: 5.17
Actel has announced a free software program development environment for its CoreMP7, the industry's only soft 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor core for FPGAs.
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Development Software for FPGAs

09/04/2006  IIII
Relevance: 5.00
The SoftConsole is a free software development environment for the CoreMP7, the soft 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor core for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). Based on the open-source Eclipse integrated design environment (IDE) and ARM7 GNU compiler and debugger, SoftConsole provides a cost-effective and reliable way to write and debug software programs for CoreMP7.
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Sun pushes integration with UltraSPARC T2

08/29/2007  III
Relevance: 4.77
Sun has announced the UltraSPARC T2, which it has dubbed the world's fastest commodity microprocessor. As a general-purpose processor, the UltraSPARC T2 also provides support for the massively threaded, open source Solaris operating system and other realtime operating systems, as well as future versions of Ubuntu Linux. Sun plans to release source code for the UltraSPARC T2 processor to the OpenSPARC community and the UltraSPARC T2 processor design to the open source community through the GPL license.
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Free software development environment for CoreMP7-based designs

09/18/2006  IIII
Relevance: 4.22
Actel has introduced SoftConsole, a free software development environment for Actel's CoreMP7, a soft 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor core for FPGAs. Based on the widely-used, open-source Eclipse integrated design environment (IDE) and ARM7 GNU compiler and debugger, Actel says that SoftConsole provides a cost-effective, reliable way to write and debug software programs for CoreMP7. The free tool enables designers to quickly and easily develop embedded system applications based on Actel's single-chip, flash-based FPGAs.
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Python Metaprogramming Decorators Make Magic Easy

01/18/2007  IIIII
Relevance: 4.18
Each Python version has added slightly different wrinkles to the way you accomplish metaprogramming tricks. With the newest 2.4 version,Python has grown"decorators", the most user-friendly way so far, to perform most metaprogramming. Decorators modify the function or method that is defined immediately after the decorator. Other Popular Articles The Microsoft Xbox 360 CPU Story (9K reads)Great Moments in Microprocessor History (7K reads)
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