News Release from: Pender Electronic Design
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 26 April 2004
FPGA board supports Leon MPU prototyping
The GR-CPCI-XC2V is a CompactPCI format board designed to support the early development and fast prototyping of Leon 32bit microprocessor designs.
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The GR-CPCI-XC2V is a CompactPCI format development board designed to support the early development and fast prototyping of Leon 32bit microprocessor designs. The new board has been developed by Pender Electronic Design in co-operation with Gaisler Research. Although suitable for general purpose Xilinx Virtex II FPGA development, the incorporation of onboard volatile and nonvolatile memory interfaces, together with serial and Ethernet interfaces makes this board ideal for implementing Leon designs, both for the current Leon-2 and the up-coming higher performance Leon-3.
This board, incorporating a Xilinx Virtex II field programmable gate array, is capable of operating either as a stand-alone board, or as a CompactPCI plug-in card in either the system slot or peripheral slots.
An adapter is available which allows the CompactPCI board to also be installed in a PCI slot of a standard PC.
The board includes a Xilinx XC2V6000 FPGA, Ethernet interface, debug support serial port, SDRAM and Flash memory, and can be optionally fitted with SRAM.
Sample Leon configurations and software compiler tools are provided.
This product complements an Virtex-II XC2V3000 based development board available in "classic" PCI format.
The Leon processor is a synthesisable VHDL model of a 32bit processor with an instruction set compatible with the SPARC V8 instruction set.
The Leon processor was initially developed by Gaisler while at the European Space Agency to provide a high performance fault-tolerant processor for space applications, but has been further developed by Gaisler Research to expand its applications.
To enable development of SoC devices using the Leon core, the full VHDL source code is freely available under the Gnu LGPL license.
The GR-CPCI-XC2V board is priced at Eur 5950, and is available now.
Source code for the Leon-2 processor can be downloaded from the Pender website, together with evaluation versions of software tools and simulators.
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