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by rcxdude 2163 days ago
Yup. If you just want a CPU, use a CPU. an FPGA is a terrible substitute, and generally you only want to embed a CPU on them if you are either developing a CPU or you want a not very fast CPU as an addon to a design which is already using an FPGA (and generally for this nowadays the vendors make FPGAs whith a CPU on the same die, because it's so common and frees up quite a lot of the FPGA fabric and power budget).