Soft core based model of a microcomputer family

A significant trend towards developing soft core based designs has been observed for the last few years. The emphasis is on reduction of time to market and bridging the growing gap between technology capacity and design productivity. The paper briefly presents the design of a configurable microcomputer family model based on a VHDL soft core. Modeling process with emphasis on coding style is mentioned. The paper also proposes a virtual component configuration tool that gives the core user an effective way to set up the model of the microcomputer series, upon the need of particular end-users, and introduces the implementation of industrial microcomputer series based on the model. The work on the extension of the soft core with regard to its reusability as well as on the development of a configurable model of microcontroller class based on the soft core is being done.