Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Innoveda | Subject: PSP for MPC7450/MPC7451
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 December 2001
Coverification for all
the latest PowerPCs
Innoveda has a new processor support package (PSP) for Motorola's MPC7450/MPC7451 host processors with Innoveda's V-CPU hardware/software coverification tool
Available immediately, this package enables designers to save time in developing systems that incorporate the PowerPC-compliant MPC7450/MPC7451 processors. "In the fast-paced storage and networking market, time-to-market is critical", said Guy Moshe, Innoveda's senior vice president, System-Level Design Group.
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"Our relationship with Motorola allows us to provide world-class co-verification solutions so that our mutual customers can ship product in time to take advantage of their market window".
According to Thomas Fehr, director of platform strategy for Motorola's Networking and Computing Systems Group: "Innoveda's V-CPU co-verification tool has been used successfully by customers to develop systems for imaging, storage, and networking and telecom equipment applications.
We are pleased to see Innoveda, a member of Motorola's Smart Networks Alliance, delivering support and tools for our leading host processors".
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Motorola's MPC7450/MPC7451 host processors are high-performance, low-power, 32bit implementations of the PowerPC architecture with a full 128bit implementation of Motorola's AltiVec technology.
Ideal for leading-edge computing, embedded network control, and signal-processing applications, the MPC7450/MPC7451 processors have a seven-stage pipeline and 11 execution units.
The L2 cache has been integrated onto the die for greater speed, and supports a large backside L3 cache with a 64bit datapath.
The MPC7450/MPC7451 also offers increased address space and a high-bandwidth MPX bus with minimised signal setup times and reduced idle cycles to increase bus bandwidth to a maximum speed of 133MHz.
Offering full symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capabilities, the MPC7450/MPC7451 host processors are also software-compatible with existing Motorola MPC6XX, MPC7XX, and MPC7XXX processors.
Innoveda now supplies PSPs for the complete line of PowerPC-compliant processors including the Motorola MPC603, MPC740, MPC750, MPC7400, MPC7410, MPC7450 and MPC7451.
Each solution supports both target and host modes of verification.
Target mode uses an instruction set simulator for highest fidelity, whereas host mode provides the highest simulation speed and ease-of-use for software developers.
V-CPU's host mode of operation is toolchain neutral, meaning it can be used with any software development toolchain.
This enables software developers to use state-of-the-art software tools, not just tools developed for a specific processor.
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