Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Celoxica | Subject: DK1
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 13 August 2002
M-Tec Wireless shaves months off
development
M-Tec Wireless used Celoxica's DK1 design suite in the development of a custom processor for its widebeam modules.
M-Tec Wireless used Celoxica's DK1 design suite in the development of a custom processor for its widebeam modules With DK1, M-Tec was able to re-implement a processor design in an FPGA using Celoxica's Handel-C hardware programming language that was 50% faster overall and 30% faster than in VHDL
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Celoxica has announced the DK1 design suite, software that enables a fundamentally new approach to the design of electronic hardware.
Celoxica offers a free go at FPGA design
Celoxica DK1 Eval is a free evaluation version of the Celoxica DK1 design suite that is restricted to compilations for simulation only, with no EDIF or VHDL output capability.
Wind River Systems, Celoxica's global distribution partner, introduced M-Tec to the idea of implementing low-level algorithms such as MAC processing in FPGAs using DK1.
"At our first meeting with Celoxica the company demonstrated a Spartan II based design in which a complex 3D graphics model was being rotated while live video input was being texture-mapped to its surface.
You could not have designed such functionality into a 200,000 gate FPGA using VHDL.