Portability analysis of soft microprocessor for FPGA

This paper discusses the portability issues of soft microprocessor used on FPGA platform. The problems of maintaining a long life cycle system related to soft microprocessor's portability is emphasized. Three soft microprocessors' portability was analyzed in the experiments, which represent three types of soft microprocessor groups. The result shows that the system with commercial licensed vendor independent soft microprocessor possesses higher portability and reliability and it is the preferred alternative for designing a long life cycle system. The result from the paper can give guidance to the designers who suffer from microprocessor obsolescence problems.