PicoBlaze 8-bit Microcontroller

  • Bundled With:
    • Vivado Design Suite
Overview

Product Description

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.


Key Features and Benefits

  • Supports UltraScale, Virtex 7, Kintex 7, Artix 7, Zynq and older AMD FPGA families
  • Very small size as small as 26 slices depending on device family
  • Up to 4K 18-bit instructions

 

  • Up to 240MHz performance
  • Everything in FPGA - no external components required
  • Highly integrated for implementing non-time critical state machine
  • Predictable fast interrupt response

Support

Documentation

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Design Files

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.
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)