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News Release from: Celoxica | Subject: DK Design Suite version 3.0
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A new release of the DK Design Suite extends the functionality of the high-productivity design environment for system FPGA devices.
A new release of the DK Design Suite extends the functionality of the high-productivity design environment for system FPGA devices The latest suite includes the DK3 system design tool for synthesis of complex C-based algorithms directly to FPGA, Nexus-PDK3 for coverification of hardware with software models and the PDK3 processor and board support packages for rapid system prototyping to hands-on hardware
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Celoxica has announced the DK1 design suite, software that enables a fundamentally new approach to the design of electronic hardware.
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Celoxica DK1 Eval is a free evaluation version of the Celoxica DK1 design suite that is restricted to compilations for simulation only, with no EDIF or VHDL output capability.
The new features in DK3 provide improved quality of results for the hardware implemented from C-based models.
The Handel-C synthesis tool now performs retiming of hardware critical paths, automatic use of FPGA combinatorial multipliers and on-chip resources, and automatic pipelining of synchronous memory blocks.
The new synthesis features give users the ability to perform speed/area tradeoffs directly from their C algorithms, realising significant performance improvements of 100% or more without requiring changes to their source code.
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Design suite extended to latest FPGAs
Celoxica has extended its DK1 design suite for the rapid design of reconfigurable hardware to support Xilinx Virtex II customers.
Board helps with small to medium FPGA prototyping
New from Celoxica, the RC100 stand-alone development board provides a rapid prototyping platform for small- to medium-sized FPGA designs.
PAL simplifies FPGA application interfacing
Celoxica has announced its platform abstraction layer (PAL) strategy for FPGA and system independent reconfigurable designs.
The Celoxica DK3 software continues to support all the latest FPGA devices from Altera and Xilinx and a number of other established and emerging reconfigurable architectures.
The latest features in version 3.0 of Nexus-PDK, Celoxica's cosimulation environment, include a new cosimulation manager that handles multiple simulation environments concurrently, manages data linking and global clocks across simulations, and eases user setup of the system coverification environment.
The Nexus-PDK environment supports cosimulation of cycle accurate C, C++ and Handel-C models with SystemC, Matlab/Simulink, and VHDL and Verilog simulators.
The PDK3 processor support packages provide improved performance for processor cores commonly used in Altera and Xilinx FPGAs.
The PDK3 Data Streaming Manager (DSM) API and simulation software supports ARM and NIOS processors in Altera devices and Microblaze and PowerPC processors in Xilinx devices.
In addition the PDK3 board support package now includes a design wizard to help users easily set up board projects using Celoxica Platform Support Library (PSL) and Platform Application Layer (PAL) API libraries to speed up system prototyping and board reuse across projects.
The market acceptance of the Celoxica DK Design Suite was excellent in 2003.
Celoxica maintained a 70% growth rate year over year and sold the 300th commercial DK licence in 2003.
"The new features in the DK3 release will only support that trend by making the design environment even more productive for implementing complex C algorithms in FPGA", said Jeff Jussel, Vice President of Marketing at Celoxica.
The DK Design Suite Version 3.0 will be available for general delivery in March 2004.
Version 3.0 will be available across all Celoxica product configurations with prices starting at US $2000 for the Platform Developer's Package configuration.
The software supports computing platforms with Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Celoxica also offers a broad range of signal processing IP, design services and off-the-shelf FPGA prototyping cards to support the DK Design Suite and the Software-Compiled System Design methodology.
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