Two months after Xilinx acquired Triscend, it now seems they are planning to kill the Triscend products. We recently got the End-of-life notification for the A7 processor, and I guess the E5 is also going.
Can anybody guess what their plans might be? What is the point of buying a company and dropping the products? Except for the purpose of getting irritated customers who will get enourmous redesign work using some other processor.
I can't imagine that Triscend was a very big threat to the Microblaze market, to warrant shutting it down just to kill the competition.
Does anybody know of a replacement for the Triscend A7 processor? We are using it together with a Xilinx FPGA (at least until now...) and have implemented a FIFO in the CSL to move data at high speed from the FPGA to external SDRAM (Up to 128 Mbits/second in packets of 8 32-bit words). This link seems to be difficult to implement using a "standard" ARM7 processor.
Any suggestions and views are appreciated.
/Anders