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News Release from: Celoxica | Subject: DK1 design suite
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 February 2001
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Celoxica has announced the DK1 design suite, software that enables a fundamentally new approach to the design of electronic hardware.
Celoxica has announced the DK1 design suite, software that enables a fundamentally new approach to the design of electronic hardware DK1 permits the rapid design of electronic products and exploits hardware upgrading via the Internet to better manage the lifecycle of products once they are in the field
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The DK1 design suite represents a new approach to the rapid development of FPGA and system-on-chip designs.
With DK1, engineers use Handel-C, a high-level language based on ANSI C, to write complex algorithms targeted for migration to hardware.
Unlike previous approaches, which require translation of C-like language code into intermediate hardware description languages, DK1 provides migration from C code to hardware.
As a result, hardware design is no longer limited to HDL experts, but accessible to application specialists, including system architects and software engineers.
Within an integrated development environment, DK1 provides all the design tools - including a compiler, a simulator and a debugger - needed to design, validate, refine and implement designs based on the Handel-C high-level language.
DK1 developers can also take advantage of prototyping boards provided by Celoxica.
Intended for testing Handel-C algorithms and code in hardware, the RC1000 series of evaluation boards are design-ready printed-circuit boards preloaded with Virtex series FPGAs from Xilinx.
Established to help manufacturers accelerate internal application of rapid design methods, Celoxica Design Services provides consulting services that support a range of development models.
Manufacturers can contract with Celoxica Design Services for in-house development support, outsourced turnkey contract development or any combination of in-house and outsourced services.
The DK1 design suite runs on IBM PC compatible computers running Microsoft Windows 98, 2000 or NT4.0 and it supports FPGAs from Xilinx and Altera.
Pricing for DK1 starts from US$25,000 per year for a 3-year license, not including maintenance, and it will begin shipping worldwide in March 2001.
The RC1000 boards are available now and include Virtex series FPGAs from Xilinx.
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