Soft core

Soft core or Softcore may refer to:

Softcore pornography

Softcore pornography or softcore porn is commercial still photography or film that has a pornographic or erotic component. However, it is less sexually graphic and intrusive than hardcore pornography.

Softcore pornography is intended to be arousing and aesthetically beautiful. It's designed to a visual aphrodisiac – a seduction. It typically contains nude/semi-nude actors involved in love scenes.

Total nudity is now commonplace in several magazines as well as in photography, Nude scenes are increasing more and more in today's films and television. Nudity and sexual content is also accessible on the Internet.

Softcore pornography may also contain displays of sexuality, such as sexual intercourse or masturbation. Softcore pornography does not contain explicit depictions of vaginal or anal penetration, cunnilingus, fellatio and ejaculation. Depictions of erections of the penis may not be allowed (see Mull of Kintyre Test), although attitudes towards this are ever-changing.

Soft core (synthesis)

A soft core (also called softcore) is a digital circuit that can be wholly implemented using logic synthesis. It can be implemented via different semiconductor devices containing programmable logic (e.g., ASIC, FPGA, CPLD), including both high-end and commodity variations. Many soft cores may be implemented in one FPGA. In those multi-core systems, rarely used resources can be shared between all the cores.

Examples of soft core implementations are soft microprocessors, graphics chips like AGA or Open Graphics Project, harddisc controllers etc.

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