Wind River to distribute Celoxica's DK1

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Apr 12, 2001

Wind River Systems has signed a worldwide agreement to distribute the Celoxica DK1 C-to-hardware design suite for FPGAs.

Wind River Systems has signed a worldwide agreement to distribute the Celoxica DK1 C-to-hardware design suite for the rapid expression and conversion of software algorithms into hardware implementations on FPGAs.

Established through the Wind River Direct programme, the agreement furthers Wind River's initiative to deliver the most complete integrated development solution for reconfigurable computing to embedded developers.

"DK1 is a compelling technology for Wind River's customers and we are proud to be providing one of the cornerstones for this new initiative", said Jon Treanor, President and CEO, Celoxica.

"In Wind River, Celoxica is gaining a truly world class partner that understands and supports the changing of processes within a customer's organisation to accommodate new technologies".

"Reconfigurable computing and FPGA technology is one of the most exciting emerging markets in the embedded industry", said Curt Schacker, vice president of marketing and corporate development for Wind River.

"Wind River is pleased to extend our WindLink partnership with Celoxica to provide the best and most complete development technology for the reconfigurable computing market, all available in one place".

Celoxica's DK1 is the first suite for effective direct C-to-hardware synthesis.

Beyond its benefits in rapid hardware design, DK1 enables system designers and software developers to accelerate algorithms by expressing them in parallel and mapping them directly to hardware without a Hardware Description Language (HDL) step.

This has significant implications in areas such as broadband networking where the ability to accelerate complex software protocols in hardware is becoming more and more critical.

Wind River has an exclusive one-year agreement to be the only company in the embedded industry to offer the DK1 and will immediately distribute it through its worldwide sales organisation.

Celoxica will provide direct support to the Wind River sales team through its regional offices in Silicon Valley, California; Japan; Singapore; and the United Kingdom.

Customer support for DK1 will be provided to Wind River customers through Celoxica's own support organisation and Celoxica's support partner Synstar, which provides support to leading international organisations, including IBM and NCR.