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News Release from: ARC International | Subject: ARCangel 3
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 June 2001
Board supports soft-processor-based SoC
designs
ARCangel 3 from ARC Cores is a new development platform supporting the latest available FPGAs.
ARCangel 3 from ARC Cores is a new development platform supporting the latest available FPGAs It allows designers to evaluate SoC systems based on ARC Tangent-A4 processor systems integrated with other intellectual property (IP) for designs of over 2.5 million FPGA system gates
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The board is designed around an 1156-pin Xilinx Virtex XCV2000E, featuring up to 2,541,952 system gates, over 655,360bit of block RAM and up to 804 user I/O pins.
The board can also be upgraded to support the larger XCV2600E or XCV3200E FPGA devices.
With this enlarged capacity, the new development platform easily supports integration of ARC's 32bit user-customisable processor with other logic and IP typically found in a complex SoC design.
This allows comprehensive hardware-software debug and verification of different Tangent-A4 processor configurations, custom instructions, custom interfaces, multiple processor systems and additional IP blocks.
The extensive user programmable I/O enables easy hardware debugging and interfacing to external prototyping cards and components.
The ARCangel 3 development board is fully supported by the etaWare software development toolset to allow rapid software development and hardware evaluation.
By enabling application software development to begin early in the design cycle and provide performance feedback to the hardware design, ARCangel 3 allows developers to rapidly implement and debug a Tangent-A4 based system.
The ARCangel 3 carries interfaces for Ethernet and USB 1.1 ports allowing customers to evaluate and prototype systems that require these peripherals.
The board can also be upgraded to support ARC's Bluetooth solution using a plug in card that supports Bluetooth radio cards.
ARCangel 3 also features several types of memory that can be treated as one contiguous space or completely separate memories that can be used as system memory, external cache, or XY memory.
Memory expansion options include off the shelf DIMM memories.
The board also features nonvolatile Flash memory and configuration PROMs, allowing ARCangel 3 to be easily used as a demonstration platform.
The board is designed to the industry standard NLX form factor and measures approximately 8 x 11in.
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