New software makes development on Xilinx chips more accessible
20 May 2015
Design Automation
Xilinx unveiled the SDSoC Development Environment for its All Programmable range of SoCs (systems-on-chip) and MPSoCs (multiprocessing SoCs). The third member of the Xilinx SDx family of development environments, the new software enables the broader community of embedded software developers to leverage the power of these devices.
The SDSoC environment provides a simplified, ASSP-like programming experience including an easy-to-use Eclipse integrated design environment (IDE) and a comprehensive development platform for heterogeneous Zynq All Programmable SoCs and MPSoCs deployment.
Complete with the industry’s first C/C++ full-system optimising compiler, SDSoC delivers system level profiling, automated software acceleration in programmable logic, automated system connectivity generation, and libraries to speed programming. It also enables end-user and third-party platform developers to rapidly define, integrate and verify system level solutions and enable their end customers with a customised programming environment.
Used by systems and embedded software engineers, SDSoC provides an Eclipse IDE with C/C++ running on bare metal or operating systems such as Linux and FreeRTOS as its input. It enables the creation of complete heterogeneous multi-processing systems, including reuse of legacy HDL IP blocks as C-callable libraries.
Building on the advanced software profiling found in the Xilinx SDK, which enables software-hardware performance measurement of a completed design running on a Zynq platform, SDSoC adds rapid system performance estimation. This lets users specify which functions should be accelerated in programmable logic and SDSoC instruments the C/C++ code to report software cycles and estimates for the data transfer as well as overall application speedup.
SDSoC provides board support packages (BSP) for Zynq All Programmable SoC-based development boards as well as third party and market specific platforms including the Zedboard, MicroZed, ZYBO, and Video and Imaging development kits.
For more information contact Erich Nast, Avnet South Africa, +27 (0)11 319 8600, [email protected], www.avnet.co.za
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