European Space Agency provides free SPARC compatible processor model | Linux Today

European Space Agency provides free SPARC compatible processor model

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 7, 1999

[ Thanks to Jiri
Gaisler
for this link. ]

“The LEON-1 is a SPARC compatible processor (integer-only)
developed at ESTEC. It has been implemented as a highly
configurable, synthesisable VHDL model. To promote the SPARC
standard and enable development of system-on-a-chip (SOC) devices
using SPARC cores, the full source code is made freely available
under the GNU GPL license.

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