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In the old days, many systems would forgo microprocessors in favor of glue logic or application specific controllers to drive costs down. This makes it very hard to have a generalized discussion about those systems.
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Altera offers HPS (Hard Processor System) in almost all of its high end products. Xilinx has Zynq serial SoC FPGA. Microsemi provides SmartFusion serial SoC FPGA.
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Nios II Gen2 Processor Reference Guide, Altera Corporation, April, 2015
Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC: Embedded Design Tutorial, UG1165 (v2015.1), Xilinx Inc. April, 2015
SmartFusion Customizable System-on-Chip (cSoC) Rev 13, Microsemi Corporation, March 2015
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Gu, C. (2016). The Whole Picture. In: Building Embedded Systems. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1919-5_1
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