Actel has made its 8051-like Core8051s intellectual property available for use in its Axcelerator (high-rel), RTAX (radiation-tolerant) and Igloo (low-power) FPGAs.

"By broadening Core8051s support, Actel enables designers developing high reliability, space-flight or portable embedded designs to take advantage of the ecosystem and code base that exists for 8051-based processors," said the firm.

Core8051s is an ASM51-compatible 8bit microcontroller core that runs programs written for the industry standard 8051.
The external SFR interface normally present on 8051 microcontrollers is replaced by an APB v3.0 (advanced peripheral bus) interface for use with APB peripherals.

"Designers can customise their design with only the peripheral functions required for their application," said Actel.

For more info, see www.actel.com