IPextreme has teamed with Mentor Graphics to offer its line of 8051 cores for commercial licensing.
"The M8051 has been one of our most popular lines of IP with many customers both large and small," said Mentor Graphics' continuing engineering division manager Aaik van der Poel. "IPextreme's ability to continue to make this product available will delight our many customers."
The M8051 line up consists of four 8051-compatible cores:
- M8051W is a high performance, 2-cycle implementation of the 8051.
- M8051EW is a debug-enhanced version of the M8051W.
- M8051 is the classic 12-cycle 8051.
- M8052 is an enhanced variant of the M8051 with more memory and a 3rd timer.
Originally part of Mentor Graphics’ Inventra IP business, the M8051 is a synthesisable core that is binary compatible with 8051 devices and available in both VHDL and Verilog.
"IPextreme will package the M8051 cores in its XPack technology to provide support for all major EDA flows, including Mentor Graphics Precision FPGA synthesis tool," said Mentor.
www.ip-extreme.com/IP/m8051