Celoxica and Xilinx Deliver Next Generation System Design Tools for Virtex-II Pro Power PC and MicroBlaze Users.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2003 Custom version of the Celoxica DK Design Suite to ship with Xilinx ISE Ise (ē`sā), city (1990 pop. 104,164), Mie prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Ise Bay. It is one of the foremost religious centers of Shinto, the site of the shrines of Ise. Embedded Developers Kit v6.1 Celoxica and Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq:XLNX) today announced that a custom edition of the Celoxica DK Design Suite will be included with the recently announced Xilinx ISE Embedded Development Kit v6.1 (EDK EDK Embedded Development Kit EDK Emotiv Development Kit EDK European Death Knot (rock climbing) EDK Effective Date of Key (cryptography) EDK External Drift Kriging EDK Electric Dynamic Katathermometer ), expected to ship in October 2003 to registered EDK customers. The joint product delivery is the latest result of a strategic agreement between Celoxica and Xilinx. This agreement has resulted in the delivery of a C-based co-design solution to developers of embedded solutions in high-density FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. products. The combination of Xilinx and Celoxica system-design software offers the most productive hardware/software (HW/SW HW/SW Hardware/Software ) co-design environment and a direct route from C-based descriptions to high-performance platform FPGA implementation. The DK Design Suite enables HW/SW partitioning and co-verification and includes a cycle-accurate simulator. It supports the Xilinx MicroBlaze(TM) 32-bit soft processor core and the IBM Power POWER is a RISC instruction set architecture designed by IBM. The name is a backronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC. PC(R) processor combined in the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro(TM) FPGA. The DK Design Suite performs synthesis from C code and targets all Xilinx FPGAs, including the Xilinx Spartan-3(TM) family of low-cost devices. Using Celoxica's best-in-class compilation technology, the tools generate device-optimized EDIF EDIF - Electronic Design Interchange Format. Not a programming language, but a format to simplify data transfer between CAD/CAE systems. LISP-like syntax. See also Berkeley EDIF200. E-mail: <edif-support@cs.man.ac.uk> ftp://edif.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/edif. netlists or style-optimized VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. or Verilog. Co-simulation support is also available for RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; simulators. "The DK Design Suite allows designers to quickly explore what-if scenarios of architectural decisions, verify the HW/SW tradeoffs of their embedded application An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. in a Xilinx FPGA, and immediately realize that implementation in silicon," said Jeff Jussel, vice president of marketing at Celoxica. "This capability improves the overall area efficiency and performance of the design. The combination of these tools with the Xilinx EDK couples the advantages of pre-optimized IP with the fastest route to custom-design IP while simultaneously slashing design times and optimizing product performance and differentiation." "The partnership with Celoxica and the combined EDK and DK Design Suite flow has delivered unique capabilities to our customers resulting in a faster time-to-market solution with lower development costs," said Jerry Banks, director of Global Alliances at Xilinx. "The inclusion of processor technology in products such as Virtex-II Pro FPGAs not only offers unrivaled levels of performance, flexibility and cost, but also presents new design considerations for FPGA users." To learn more about Xilinx embedded processor solutions, visit www.xilinx.com/processor. Pricing and Availability Individual user licenses are available free-of-charge on a 30-day trial basis from Celoxica. Designers may purchase perpetual licenses of this custom edition from Celoxica starting at $12,000. About Celoxica An innovator in system-level electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ), 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. About Xilinx Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com. |
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