8088 8086 Soft IP processor FPGA core

[MicroCoreLabs]

Hi,

We have just introduced the MicroCore Labs MCL86 which is a microsequencer based, cycle compatible soft IP 8088 8086 FPGA core. It has been ported to a Kintex-7 FPGA and adapted to a 40-pin header where is replaces the original 8088 on an IBM 5160 XT motherboard.

Check out our YouTube demonstration page to see it work. http://www.MicroCoreLabs.com

Thx,
-Ted

 

[GiGaBiTe]

Some pictures of the actual hardware would be nice, you just have videos of things running, which could be on anything.

 

[MicroCoreLabs]

Hi,

We are proud to announce the release of the MicroCore Labs MCL51 which is an ultra-small footprint, microsequencer based, 8051 compatible soft processor core.

The microsequencer based MCL51 can consumes as few as 312 Xilinx Artix-7 LUTs and is a fraction of the size of competing logic-based 8051 cores.

Please visit our blog at https://microcorelabs.wordpress.com/ or our YouTube video demo page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9B3TaEUon-araO2j7tp9jg to see the core running applications that include a Quad Core 8051!

For more information on the MCL51 or the MCL86, please visit us at http://www.MicroCoreLabs.com



Thanks,
-Edward

 

[eeguru]

I assume you are in the contract engineering business. What is the license cost of such cores? And why advertise here?

 

[Chuck(G)]

For those who are interested in this sort of thing, Open Cores has several projects of this type, including IA-32 compatible implementations. And they're free.

 

[Great Hierophant]

As a drop-in replacement goes, it will do for most tasks, but they admit it is only cycle compatible to one to two clocks of a real 8088. It cannot quite pull off 8088MPH perfectly, but it comes closer than most software emulators.