Test software rides on AMCC evaluation board: News from Kozio

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AMCC's newly introduced PowerPC 450EP evaluation kit will include Kozio's kDiagnostics test software. kDiagnostics is the only commercial software product shipping with the evaluation platform. Customers can evaluate the hardware test software for free, and license kDiagnostics to reduce time to market for products and custom boards developed using the 450EP.

'We're excited about this ongoing partnership, and the opportunity to provide evaluation platforms that give customers the best possible out-of-the-box experience with our products', said Charlie Ashton, Director of PowerPC Software at AMCC.

'Working with Kozio to have kDiagnostics ready to support Taihu has gone very smoothly, and we're grateful for their efforts'.

kDiagnostics is a comprehensive suite of advanced processor and board diagnostics used to perform in-depth testing of processors and evaluation boards.

A free evaluation copy of the software will be pre-programmed into Flash memory on the Taihu evaluation board, custom designed by UDTech of Beijing for AMCC's new 405EP kit.

Purchasers of the platform can execute a simple 'run kozio' command to validate the entire board and use kDiagnostics as a software tool to explore all hardware components.

Purchasers of the 405EP can evaluate Kozio software technology and know that proven diagnostics for board bring-up, manufacturing test, power-on self-test and in-field diagnostics are available in two weeks for their custom boards.

AMCC's 405EP development kit provides users with a comprehensive set of resources, including a custom-designed evaluation board, industry-standard software development tools, sample applications, system-level benchmarks and hardware design files.

kDiagnostics will include pre-built test suites and full API for the 405EP, PCI bus, external bus, Flash, SRAM, DMA, 10/100 Ethernet, interrupt controllers, timers, EEPROM, UART, IIC, GPIO and USB.

'We're focused on supporting all AMCC embedded hardware architectures, and look forward to a continued partnership', notes Kozio President Joseph Skazinski.

'We're pleased to have this free evaluation of our complete diagnostic software package, fully ported to the Taihu platform, ship with this latest AMCC product'.

The AMCC PowerPC 405EP 32bit RISC processor is designed to provide a flexible, low-cost, fast time to market hardware solution to satisfy the demands of high- performance embedded applications.

A balance of performance, low power and features makes the PowerPC 405EP ideal for communication, data storage and pervasive computing applications.

The low power consumption makes it ideal for high-density designs, including wireless LAN access points, edge routers, broadband modems and other wired and wireless networking devices.

For developers of AMCC 405EP-based products and a wide range of other processor families from leading manufacturers, Kozio provides a completely integrated diagnostics solution, including drivers for peripherals, as well as turnkey test suites for Ethernet, I2C, USB, HSS and other features provided through the core processor architecture.

Kozio also leverages its extensive hardware expertise to provide professional services delivering custom test suite supporting custom logic via ASICs, FPGAs, and other forms.

Licensing is offered per board design.

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