by: AMD
PicoBlaze™ is a fully embedded 8-bit RISC microcontroller core optimized for 7 series and older AMD FPGA architectures.
PicoBlaze™ is a fully embedded 8-bit RISC microcontroller core optimized for 7 series and older AMD FPGA architectures. This reference design is offered free to AMD users, and comes with an easy to-use code assembler KCPSM6 (or KCPSM3 for older FPGA families), VHDL and Verilog® source code, simulation models, comprehensive documentation and reference designs.
This site provides you with access to the latest PicoBlaze™ reference design files.
The latest version of PicoBlaze is KCPSM6 Rev 9, released September 30, 2014, supporting UltraScale™, Zynq™, 7 series, Virtex™ 6 and Spartan™ 6 device families.
What’s New in PicoBlaze can be found embedded in the downloaded zip file.
| PicoBlaze releases for earlier device families are available below. |
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| PicoBlaze for UltraScale, 7 series, 6 series FPGAs >> KCPSM6 Rev 9 – September 30, 2014 (ZIP) |
| PicoBlaze for Virtex 5 FPGAs >> KCPSM3 (ZIP) |
| PicoBlaze for Spartan 3, Virtex 4, Virtex II and Virtex II Pro FPGAs >> KCPSM3 (ZIP) |
| PicoBlaze for Virtex, Virtex E, Spartan II and Spartan IIE FPGAs >> XAPP213 (ZIP) |
| PicoBlaze for Virtex II, Virtex II Pro FPGAs >> XAPP627 (ZIP) |
| PicoBlaze for CoolRunner™ II CPLDs >> XAPP387 (ZIP) |
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