Celoxica Announces New C Synthesis Package For FPGA Development Platforms.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2003

Low-cost Platform Developer's Package and Prototype Boards

Offer Painless Entry To Software-Compiled System Design

Celoxica today announced the immediate availability of a new C synthesis tool package that provides a low-cost entry point into C-based system-level design. The Platform Developer's Package (PDP) allows engineers to target C algorithms to off-the-shelf development boards or evaluate C-based design methodologies.

PDP provides cycle-accurate design simulation and C-based synthesis to FPGA logic and is an entry-level version of Celoxica's DK Design Suite of system design tools. PDP also includes a board support package for targeting designs to one of several supported development boards.

"The software-compiled system design methodology is the absolute fastest way to design and implement complex systems. This package gives designers a way to try C-based design with no risk," said Jeff Jussel, vice president of marketing at Celoxica. "The tool quickly transforms the high-level design models into FPGA hardware and proves the quality of that implementation in a real system prototype."

Celoxica tools specialize in compiling C-based languages directly to FPGA hardware. Using a high-level language approach, Celoxica provides the fastest path from system concept to chip implementation. And by enabling co-design and co-verification, Celoxica's methodology improves quality of design as well as design productivity. In addition to simulation and synthesis, the PDP software includes an easy to use integrated development environment user interface and a board support package API. Processor support packages for ARM, MicroBlaze, NIOS and PowerPC processors are also available as options to the PDP software. The package can also be upgraded to the DK Design Suite for users who want other advanced features for system design and co-verification.

"The effectiveness and quick results made possible by Celoxica DK tools on a critical kernel directly led to a large contract win," said Carl Murphy, VP and CTO at Accord Solutions. "Now with the PDP product's pricing and associated board platforms Accord Solutions can afford to make delivery of a fully operating PDP environment and board package to our clients. This is key to our client's ability to raise more funds for our technology advancement."

Development Boards

With PDP, board support packages are available for the Celoxica RC200 and RC2000 development boards and for the Altera NIOS development board. The RC200/RC2000 development boards include a Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA and provide environments for the evaluation and development of high performance FPGA based applications. The RC200 Programmable SoC board connects to the development software via a built-in 10/100 Ethernet port and can be used for a wide variety of prototyping systems. The RC2000 is a PCI board and is used for testing and acceleration of algorithms in hardware.

Price and availability

PDP sells for $1999 and may be purchased with an FPGA development board. Both the board and design software are available immediately. This combined solution offers a complete low-cost platform for C-based design development and prototyping.

About Celoxica

An innovator in system-level electronic design automation (EDA), Celoxica is the technology leader in Software-Compiled System Design, a process that accelerates design productivity by using high-level languages to directly drive design verification and implementation of hardware and software through a platform-based design methodology. By providing a proven route to hardware design using software techniques, Celoxica's solutions redefine hardware and software partitioning to enable the use of reprogrammable logic devices in the development of electronics and reconfigurable systems. For more information, visit: www.celoxica.com.

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