Reconfigurable Multiprocessor Systems: A Review

Table 1

Main FPGA processor models.

Processor	Company	Type	Bits	Comments
MicroBlaze	Xilinx	RISC	32 bits	Harvard
PowerPC	Xilinx	RISC	32 bits	hard-core
PicoBlaze	Xilinx	RISC	8 bits	open-source
Nios	Altera	RISC	16 bits	obsolete
Nios II	Altera	RISC	32 bits	3 flavours
Leon 3	Gaisler	RISC	32 bits	open-source
OpenRisc 1200	OpenCores	RISC	32 bits	open-source
Mico32	Lattice	RISC	32 bits	open-source