Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: IDT | Subject: SDK for IDT/AMCC development system
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 November 2002
Software speeds coprocessor solutions
A new software development kit aims to simplify the design of IDT IP coprocessor solutions for use with AMCC's family of network processors
The kit includes IDT's system-level architecture model (SLAM), the industry's first system-level, data-accurate architecture model for the AMCC system that enables designers to begin software development earlier in the design process, and evaluate system architecture tradeoffs in a pre-hardware simulation environment.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 November 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Also included among IDT's SDK tools are a data-plane macro (DPM) library conforming to the AMCC nPkernel and production-quality, control-plane initialisation, management and searching (IMS) software conforming to AMCC's common coprocessor API (CoCoA) 2.0 API specification.
Through a partnership announced last year, IDT will provide IP coprocessors that gluelessly interface to AMCC's family of network processors including the nP3400, nP3404, nP7250 and nP7510 devices, as well as AMCC's next generation of NPUs.
IDT's SDK provides support for all AMCC network processors, with data-accurate architecture models for AMCC's nP7250 OC-48 and nP7510 10Gbit/s devices.
The breakthrough component of IDT's SDK is the SLAM, an architecture model of IDT's IP coprocessors that seamlessly interface to AMCC's network processors.
Design teams can leverage the model to reduce time to market for products featuring AMCC network processors by developing, verifying and optimising software prior to hardware availability and implementation.
The capability to simulate the entire system, including IDT's IP coprocessor, also provides designers with the power to identify potential system architecture issues early and the freedom to explore system architecture options to ensure optimum system performance.
The SLAM replicates internal resources and commands and provides error checking and warning messages.
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