Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Accelerated Technology | Subject: Nucleus Edge for Xilinx
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 September 2005
Xilinx developers gain an
edge in real time
The Eclipse-powered Nucleus Edge software development environment is now available for the MicroBlaze 32bit soft processor core and the PowerPC based processors from Xilinx
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The software is the first commercially available combined integrated development environment (IDE) and debugging solution that fully supports both processors individually and simultaneously, with seamless integration into the Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS). The Nucleus Edge software gives field programmable gate array (FPGA) developers an entirely integrated embedded development environment, including an IDE, compiler, debugger and system profiler, with which to create products from concept to deployment.
The software also provides developers with full build and debug support for heterogeneous multiprocessor designs, including synchronous control of all of the cores in the system (depending on hardware configuration).
'We are very excited about this opportunity to work with Accelerated Technology', said Milan Saini, Technical Marketing Manager of the Alliance Marketing Programme at Xilinx.
'With the addition of the Nucleus Edge development tools to the Xilinx ecosystem, our FPGA-based embedded processor developers now have access to a unique and differentiated environment that is among the leading solutions in its space'.
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Tools support multithreading MIPS cores
The Nucleus real-time operating system and the Eclipse-powered Edge Tool Suite now support the MIPS32 34K multithreading processor core family
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Synchromesh Computing has validated the Edge Tool Suite on the Freescale Semiconductor i.MX family of applications processors
Building on the integration of the Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) into the Xilinx design flow, the Nucleus Edge software also plugs into the Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) using the power of the Eclipse framework, shared by both environments.
This allows the developer to stay within the Xilinx tool flow for the entire design process, including automatic generation of the Nucleus RTOS and middleware when changes are made in the Xilinx FPGA, and then an easy change from build to debug to profile perspectives from XPS.
'Using microprocessors in FPGAs is becoming much more common, but some of the software requirements are very different from the traditional CPU world', said Robert Day, Director of Marketing, Accelerated Technology Division, Mentor Graphics.
'The integration of the Nucleus Edge software with Xilinx's Platform Studio allows for seamless development and configuration of both application and system software to match the ease of developing FPGA-based hardware'.
Licences for the complete Nucleus Edge development suite begin at US $3000 per seat.
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