Resources

FPGA Vendors

Actel

Xilinx

Altera

Lattice

SiliconBlue,

Achronix

Tabula

Full List can be found here...

Silicon Foundry (Fab) Vendors

TSMC (based off Tiwan, 28 nm process announced, 40 nm state-of-the-art as of Feb 2010)

GloFo ( AMD merged its foundry business with Chartered Semiconductor to form GloFo, )

Samsung (Korea, 28 nm announced)

Austria Microsystem (200 nm mixed signal process)

Others ....

EDA (Electronics Design Automation) Vendors

Cadence,

Ciranova,

Magma,

Mentor Graphics,

SpringSoft,

Synopsys

Soft IP (Intellectual Property) Cores

IP Core marketplace, Design-Reuse

Synopsys (IP Cores and design tools)

Microprocessors and SoC (Systems on Chip)

OpenSPARC

Donald E Knuth's MMIX RISC design

MMIX design is a musings of a beautiful mind on modern RISC processor architectures.

http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth/index.jsp

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/mmix.html

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/mmixware.html

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/mmix-news.html

MMIX : Online book (for sale)

http://www.springerlink.com/content/v8qtq27c84t8/

FPGA Synthesizable Java Processor (JOP)

http://www.jopdesign.com/

An excellent PhD Thesis along with GPL source code for Java Machine.