Xilinx unveils embedded development environment and ecosystem supporting new virtex-5 FXT FPGAs

Xilinx has announced its embedded development environment of tools and ecosystem technologies for supporting innovative system-on-chip designs targeting the company’s newest 65nm Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs. Version 10.1 of the Embedded Development Kit (EDK), which delivers the award-winning Xilinx Platform Studio embedded tool suite (XPS), includes new high-performance processing design capabilities and enables immediate support from world class embedded solution providers like Avnet Electronics Marketing, Green Hills Software, LynuxWorks, Lauterbach, MontaVista, and Wind River Systems.

Xilinx has collaborated with industry leading third-party embedded development providers to offer support for popular embedded system solutions in the area of hardware platforms and Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), as well as development, debug and trace software tools. The following embedded solution providers will be offering support for Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT with dual PowerPC 440 processors and will be exhibiting at ESC:

· · Avnet – Virtex-5 FXT FPGA Evaluation Kit, including PowerPC 440 processor reference designs
· · Green Hills Software – Integrity 5.0.10 RTOS and Multi IDE support
· · LynuxWorks – Bluecat Linux
· · Lauterbach – Trace32 software debugging and trace analysis support
· · MontaVista – MontaVista Linux Pro 4.0.1 RTOS support
· · Wind River Systems – Linux GPP 1.3 and VxWorks 6.3/6.5 RTOS support

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