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News Release from: Impulse Accelerated Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 July 2004
University software programme launched
Impulse's CoDeveloper University Program is available to any accredited school with a graduate or undergraduate electrical engineering or computer science programme.
Impulse Accelerated Technologies has launched the Impulse CoDeveloper University Program The programme provides students, instructors and qualified research groups with access to the commercially available CoDeveloper C to FPGA design tools for embedded software acceleration and for high-performance, FPGA-based computing
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Deeply discounted software tools are offered in the programme, as are special incentives for joint development of applications.
The CoDeveloper University Program is available to any accredited school with a graduate or undergraduate electrical engineering or computer science programme and includes a 50% discount on the popular Impulse CoDeveloper and CoValidator products.
Several leading university research teams are already making use of CoDeveloper in projects ranging from neurological simulations to more traditional embedded applications, including hardware acceleration of signal processing algorithms.
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According to David Pellerin, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Impulse, "We are seeing strong interest from universities, particularly among research teams engaged in larger, computationally intense applications".
"We are also seeing a growing trend toward software-oriented design methods for FPGAs, which is being driven by the increased densities of today's FPGAs and the wide availability of embedded processor and peripheral IP cores".
Indeed, the use of CoDeveloper in university research products already ranges from relatively simple FPGA co-processing projects (in signal processing, robotics and imaging) to more complex supercomputing projects, including a 27-FPGA neurological simulator being constructed at Montana State University.
Other research teams (including the University of Washington and Kanagawa University in Japan) are using CoDeveloper to explore hardware acceleration of algorithms including gene sequencing and machine vision, without the need to write low-level hardware descriptions for key processes.
Impulse CoDeveloper allows application developers to work within their current C development environments (including Microsoft Visual Studio, Metrowerks CodeWarrior or GCC-based tools).
CoDeveloper also includes application monitoring capabilities that allow application developers to analyse and observe data movement while debugging their C code in a standard desktop debugger.
The generated HDL code is optimised for parallelism and is fully compatible with FPGA manufacturers' synthesis tools and Synplicity's Synplify.
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