News Release from: Kozio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 3 July 2006
Software supports latest industrial PowerPC
Kozio has announced support for AMCC's new PowerPC 405EZ networked industrial processor.
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Kozio has announced support for AMCC's new PowerPC 405EZ networked industrial processor. The 405EZ is the first in AMCC's family of high-performance networked industrial processors. Kozio will offer a turnkey diagnostics package for hardware test and debug solutions for custom 405EZ-based boards, giving product designers a complete diagnostics solution in two weeks that will save development effort, board bring-up, and production testing time.
'We use Kozio's diagnostic software internally to accelerate our validation of new PowerPC processors', said Pini Herman, Senior Manager of Hardware Development at AMCC.
'We have found the kDiagnostics package invaluable in allowing us to quickly debug our validation hardware and thereby minimise the bring-up time for new SoCs'.
'We are delighted that Kozio has announced support for the 405EZ processor and look forward to using their tools as we debug this new product'.
'We see more and more companies turning to 32bit SoCs to replace their 8bit and 16bit MCUs and Kozio is providing an excellent set of software tools to help with this transition', stated Joseph Skazinski, President of Kozio.
'Our turnkey hardware test products provide clear value as customers design and manufacture new products incorporating 32bit processors such as AMCC's 405EZ PowerPC processor'.
The shift to 32bit processors is being driven by industrial controller applications that require the increased computing power of 32bit SoCs to handle the additional tasks of networked communications, more sophisticated algorithms and more complete operating systems.
32bit processors continue to drop in price, and in some cases their cost is lower than traditional 16bit MCUs.
Kozio's diagnostics software kDiagnostics, kManufacturing, kPOST and kField provide a full board test report within minutes of running the software.
Kozio's turnkey diagnostics package includes pre-verified test suites for analogue and digital peripherals, timers, IEEE 1588 Fast Ethernet, USB, CAN, comprehensive memory test suites for SRAM and CellularRAM, and support for the 64bit on-chip bus.
The package also includes full Flash memory capabilities as well as detection and testing of peripherals.
Evaluation versions of kDiagnostics are now available.
Kozio continues to partner with AMCC to provide complete support for their newest processors, including the PowerPC 405EZ, the first of a family of high-performance, low-power-consumption solutions for SoCs.
Kozio will be ready to support the 405EZ product developers when the chips are available, and will deliver turnkey diagnostics for custom boards to customers using the AMCC PowerPC 405EZ within two weeks after a purchase order is issued.
Components tested include the PowerPC405EZ, SRAM, CellularRAM, GPIO, 12C, IEEE1588 Ethernet, USB USB 2.0, two CAN 2.ob ports, 10bit ADC, 10bit DAC, PWM and Flash memory.
This list is adjusted for custom boards based on a product's block diagram.
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