ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs

Re:ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs by zekevermillion on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @09:52PM (#18127097)

Is there some way ARM could make money supporting an open IP like RISC-V, analagous to Red Hat for Fedora Linux? Obviously, not a perfect analogy, but...

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Re:ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs by jononor on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:49AM (#18128108)

Custom design services. Which is more of a consulting business, so does not scale in same way as IP licensing.

Could also integrate manufacturing services, but fabs is incredibly capital intensive, making it another kind of business.

Could also keep IP licensing as a model, but open the core and push it further and further out into peripherals. Problem is that would probably kill the surrounding ecosystem of partners that do this today.

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Re:ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs by Someone on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:44AM (#18128096)

Build RISC-V chips with proprietary extensions. License the extensions to third parties.

That would require the extensions to be popular, though, and having a corner of one fort is less ideal than having an entire fort.

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Re:ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs by rataata_jr on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:16AM (#18128002)

Donations.

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