Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: eASIC Corp | Subject: E926 development kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 May 2007
Structured ASICs customise embedded ARM
systems
Development kit packages hardware and software required for designing affordable ARM926EJ-based embedded systems.
eASIC Corp and IAR Systems have jointly produced a development kit for designing affordable ARM926EJ-based embedded systems The e926 development kit provides embedded system designers with a comprehensive application development environment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The kit includes eASIC's e926 development board, IAR Systems' software design and debug tools, as well as Amba peripherals and reference designs that enable designers to start developing their software applications within 30 minutes.
The e926 development board is populated with a 90nm Nextreme structured ASIC device that includes the ARM926EJ processor with integrated I-cache, D-cache, data and instruction tightly coupled memories.
Nextreme structured ASICs enable designers to rapidly develop hardware and software for customised ARM926EJ embedded systems.
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These custom devices feature low power consumption, low unit-cost and 3-4 weeks turnaround with zero mask-charges and no minimum order quantity.
"We want to make it easy for our customers to develop embedded processing applications using industry standard tools, hence our reason for partnering with IAR Systems", says Jasbinder Bhoot, Senior Director of Marketing, at eASIC.
"Our low-cost solution enables designers, even at small companies, to develop highly-differentiated embedded SoCs that can be optimised for either hardware or software".
"The e926 development Kit will allow software development to start in parallel to silicon design and help our customers get to market faster".
The e926 development board includes eASIC's 90nm Nextreme NX1500 structured ASIC device with a preloaded industry standard ARM926EJ processor and a companion FPGA that is preconfigured with a suite of Amba peripherals.
The board also includes Flash memory and SRAM, and interfaces for LCD panels, VGA, USB2.0, JTAG, serial port, AC97 and four I/O expansion headers.
The kit also includes Embedded Workbench ARM Development Tools from IAR Systems, including IDE, assembler, linker, C/C++ compiler, simulator and debugger.
With its built-in chip-specific code optimiser, IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM generates very efficient and reliable Flash/PROMable code for eASIC's ARM926EJ implementation.
IAR Systems also bundles RTOS and middleware components from several vendors to satisfy the most demanding requirements.
The package also provides a J-Link Debug USB Probe from IAR Systems for performing on target debug via JTAG, together with a reference design and tutorial.
"At IAR Systems we know that product development is a game of managing complexity", says Robert DeOliveira IAR Business Development Manager.
"That's why we have developed a complete, integrated development environment for embedded applications".
"Our objective is to provide eASIC customers with reliable and highly optimised code, while allowing for a flexible and easy to use environment combined with RTOS and middleware components in order to meet the most demanding scheduling".
The e926 development kit is available now for purchase at only US $2500.
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