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News Release from: Impulse Accelerated Technologies | Subject: CoDeveloper for Xilinx
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 March 2006
Programming tools support floating-point
libraries
Impulse Accelerated Technologies has announced support for Xilinx floating point libraries in its Impulse C software-to-hardware compiler.
Impulse Accelerated Technologies has announced support for Xilinx floating point libraries in its Impulse C software-to-hardware compiler Through the use of advanced compiler and optimiser techniques, the Impulse compiler is capable of scheduling and generating highly parallel, pipelined floating point hardware from standard C statements and standard "float" and "double" data types
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The extended dynamic range and precision offered by floating-point arithmetic can be a requirement for many applications", stated David Pellerin, CTO of Impulse.
"These applications include signal processing algorithms for graphics, advanced wireless communications, instrumentation, industrial control, audio and medical imaging applications, as well as for FPGA-based supercomputing".
"Our support for Xilinx floating point cores represents our commitment to software application developers wanting to take advantage of FPGAs for algorithm acceleration".
Using Impulse C, software programmers are now able to generate Xilinx floating-point hardware from standard C-language statements.
Both single and double-precision floating-point is supported, through the automatic inference of Xilinx IEEE754 standard compliant floating-point IP libraries.
According to Steve Lass, Director of Software Product Marketing at Xilinx: "By adding direct support for Xilinx floating-point libraries to its C-to-FPGA tools, Impulse continues to demonstrate its strong commitment to making FPGAs accessible to software application developers at all levels".
Impulse CoDeveloper for Xilinx is available now, with perpetual licence prices starting at $4695.
A starter kit is available based on the Xilinx Virtex-4 platform that includes a one year license of the Impulse C software, the Prentice Hall textbook "Practical FPGA programming in C", a Nu Horizons FX-12 development board, Xilinx Embedded Development Kit, and two hours of factory consultation, priced at US $2995.
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