Software allows creation of ANSI C applications

Impulse's CoDeveloper tools support application development and debugging using standard C development environments including Microsoft Visual Studio and GCC.

Impulse Accelerated Technologies has introduced the CoDeveloper that allows embedded system designers to create ANSI C applications targeting mixed processor and FPGA platforms, including platforms based on the Xilinx MicroBlaze and Altera Nios embedded FPGA processors.

The CoDeveloper tools support application development and debugging using standard C development environments including Microsoft Visual Studio and GCC.

Applications developed using the Impulse C libraries are processed using the included C to RTL compiler and optimiser and may be further processed and downloaded to Nios or MicroBlaze-based prototyping boards without the need to write any VHDL or Verilog code.

CoDeveloper creates the necessary low-level hardware and software descriptions which can be imported directly into the Altera or Xilinx tools for hardware synthesis and implementation.

Automatically generated software libraries, scripts, and interfaces simplify the process of moving from C applications to hardware/software implementations.

CoDeveloper HDL outputs are also fully compatible with third-party synthesis tools from Synplicity, Mentor and others.

CoDeveloper includes the Impluse C libraries, which allow standard ANSI C to be used to describe, compile and simulate highly parallel algorithms, and the CoDeveloper hardware compiler that allows specific Impulse C processes to be identified as hardware and compiled directly to FPGA logic.

During simulation, CoDeveloper monitors Impluse C applications and identifies data communication bottlenecks such as over-used stream buffers or computationally intensive processes.

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