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soft core processor

Hello.
I will be doing an introductory tutorial on "My First Nios II Software Design".
But I just need to get overview of the matter so that I can appreciate and be happy with what I am doing.
So Wikipedia says "soft-core processor is a processor that can be wholly implemented by logic synthesis". I have heard about people using ARM processor in their design. Is ARM refer to architecture or name of processor brand like Nios? Is ARM also soft-core?

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The ARM architecture (previously, the Advanced RISC Machine, and prior to that Acorn RISC Machine) is a 32-bit RISC processor architecture developed by ARM Limited.

ARM also has soft cores available both as netlist and RTL.. but you need to get license to use them..

Visit ARM website www.arm.com
 

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