Embedded Development Kit (EDK) 10.1 Kick-Starts PowerPC 440 Processor
Embedded Designs, Enables Support for Operating Systems, Tools and Boards
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX)
today announced its embedded development environment of tools and ecosystem
technologies for supporting innovative system-on-chip designs targeting the
company's newest 65nm Virtex(R)-5 FXT FPGAs. Version 10.1 of the Embedded
Development Kit (EDK), which delivers the award-winning Xilinx(R) Platform
Studio embedded tool suite (XPS), includes new high-performance processing
design capabilities and enables immediate support from world class embedded
solution providers like Avnet Electronics Marketing, Green Hills Software,
LynuxWorks, Lauterbach, MontaVista, TimeSys and Wind River Systems.
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Xilinx has collaborated with industry leading third-party embedded
development providers to offer support for popular embedded system
solutions in the area of hardware platforms and Real Time Operating Systems
(RTOS), as well as development, debug and trace software tools. The
following embedded solution providers will be offering support for
Xilinx(R) Virtex(R)-5 FXT with dual PowerPC(R) 440 processors and will be
exhibiting at ESC:
-- Avnet -- Virtex-5 FXT FPGA Evaluation Kit, including PowerPC(R) 440
processor reference designs
-- Green Hills Software -- Integrity 5.0.10 RTOS and Multi IDE support
-- LynuxWorks -- Bluecat Linux
-- Lauterbach -- Trace32 software debugging and trace analysis support
-- MontaVista -- MontaVista Linux Pro 4.0.1 RTOS support
-- TimeSys -- LinuxLink Linux 2.6 support
-- Wind River Systems -- Linux GPP 1.3 and VxWorks 6.3/6.5 RTOS support
"The introduction of Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs with dual PowerPC 440 blocks
opens up tremendous new opportunities for developers building applications
requiring both real-time and general operating systems," said Robert Day,
vice president of Marketing at LynuxWorks. "The Xilinx EDK 10.1 tool suite
gives designers what they need to develop and program their systems with
either our BlueCat Linux and/or the upcoming LynxOS 5.0 real-time OS to
meet these unique requirements."
Getting Started with Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK) 10.1
Architecting and programming embedded processing systems using the
Virtex- 5 FXT platform is simplified by EDK 10.1 tools. Automated design
wizards guide designers through the steps for implementing the
high-performance 128-bit Processor Local Bus (PLB), a component of the IBM
CoreConnect(TM) bus standard that can be configured for both shared and
point-to-point system connections. The new tools also introduce
co-processing support for the PowerPC 440 processor block enabled by a new
Auxiliary Processor Unit controller (APU). The APU can also be used to
directly interface to high-speed FPGA hardware, perform PowerPC 440
processor code profiling and enable analysis for supporting software and
hardware optimization.
The new EDK 10.1 release also includes new and updated IP cores to
optimize system design. Peripherals such as SPI, DDR2, DMA, PS2, Tri-Mode
Ethernet MAC with SGMII support, and Flexray(TM) peripheral options, as
well as PCI Express(R) driver support for DMA are included. Improvements to
the Multi-Port Memory Controller and the Memory Interface Generator (MIG)
tools empower greater interfacing options for memory intensive
applications. In addition, an update to the award winning MicroBlaze(TM)
32-bit processor enables greater cache interface flexibility.
"Xilinx Platform Studio and the EDK 10.1 technology provided Avnet with
easy to use interfaces that allowed us to quickly integrate our new
Virtex-5 FXT FPGA Evaluation kit into the Xilinx development environment,"
said Jim Beneke, director of Technical Marketing at Avnet Electronics
Marketing. "We provide a simple description file with any new development
board we create, and the Xilinx design wizards can automatically map
on-the-fly tool support for our development platform."
Pricing and Availability
All third party products and technologies are sold and supported by
those vendors. The Xilinx EDK 10.1 release is immediately available for USD
$495, and conveniently bundles the XPS 10.1 tool suite with a processing IP
library, software drivers, documentation, reference design examples and the
MicroBlaze 32-bit soft processor. EDK is available as part of the unified
ISE(R) Design Suite, along with other Xilinx products such as ISE
Foundation design tools, ChipScope(TM) Pro analyzer, System Generator for
DSP tool, AccelDSP(TM) synthesis tool, and PlanAhead(TM) design software.
The ISE Design Suite makes it easy to order, register, install and/or
evaluate all Xilinx development and debug tools from a single download site
or one DVD.
EDK 10.1 supports a broad range of computing platforms, including
Windows XP Professional (32-bit), Windows Vista Business (32-bit), Red Hat
Enterprise Linux WS 4 (32- and 64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
(32- and 64- bit), SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (32- and 64-bit).
To purchase or evaluate the EDK with Platform Studio tool suite, and
for complete information on all Xilinx embedded processing solutions,
please visit: http://www.xilinx.com/processor
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable system
solutions. For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com.
XILINX, the Xilinx Logo, Virtex, Spartan, ISE and other designated
brands included herein are trademarks of Xilinx in the United States and
other countries. FlexRay is a licensed trademark of the FlexRay Consortium.
The PowerPC name is a registered trademark of IBM Corp. and used under
license. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Editorial Contacts:
Bruce Fienberg
Xilinx, Inc.
(408) 879-4631
bruce.fienberg@xilinx.com
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