I think that PIC18 core is freely distrubuted. But how is the reliability of
such core?

Is there anybody who uses free IP cores on thier commercial project instead
of hard-core PICmicros?



I am not so sure. A zero clock ARM core was announced in 2005 ? That's a
> completely event driven CPU. The transistor count is everything, given
> same technology and clock used.
>
> Here is an interesting article on this:
>
>
> http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:viTGsLkHmVQJ:www.ece.uah.edu/~milenka/docs/milenkovic_mse03.pdf+number+of+transistors+pic+core+microchip&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3
>
> PIC 18F core in 100k gates FPGA uses 78% of the array but implemented
> with dual data paths (= 4 times faster than PIC but less complex). I
> don't think that the basic ARM core needs 100k gates.
>
> Peter
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