Support spreads to latest comms processors

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Dec 20, 2005

Kozio has announced support for the Freescale Semiconductor PowerQUICC II Pro family of communications processors based on PowerPC cores.

Kozio has announced support for the Freescale Semiconductor PowerQUICC II Pro family of communications processors based on PowerPC cores.

Kozio broadens its line of supported processors for its production-ready embedded software products, enabling customers to quickly validate new board designs.

Kozio's products are the perfect solution for companies looking to save development effort while streamlining the process of preparing production-ready processor boards with increased reliability.

"We are thrilled to be adding to our support of Freescale processors as well as extending our alliance with Silicon Turnkey Express".

"This is an exciting time for us as our customers are realising the value of adding extensive hardware testing and diagnostics to their overall product development", stated Joseph Skazinski, Kozio's President.

Kozio, a member of the Freescale Tools Alliance Programme, provides advanced test capabilities for custom board designs based on the PowerQUICC II Pro processor with two week delivery times.

Kozio's latest release includes support for the MPC8343E, MPC8347E, MPC8349E, MPC8358E and MPC8360E processors.

Functional tests, diagnostics and programming capabilities are provided for the CPU, Flash memory, DDR SDRAM, NVRAM, PCI, I2C, GPIO, Ethernet controllers, USB, local bus, UART, DMA controllers, SPI and interrupt controller.

Kozio software allows faults to be isolated down to the component level.

Additional capabilities are available as needed, because each Kozio product delivery is custom tailored to each customer's board design.

"Extensive hardware test capabilities provide a great enabler for Freescale customers, allowing them to get products to market faster", said Mike Shoemake, Business Manager for Freescale's Digital Systems Division.

"Kozio software provides very attractive test capabilities for PowerQUICC processors, including the functional testing of high-speed serial interfaces".

Kozio is partnering with Silicon Turnkey Express and providing evaluation copies of Kozio's kDiagnostics software package for STx's GP2-PRO reference platform, a low-cost single-board computer using the Freescale PowerQUICC II Pro processor.

The GP2-PRO provides an upgrade path from 82xx PowerQUICC II processor-based systems and provides integral cryptographic accelerator and gigabit Ethernet features, making it ideal for network security and virtual storage applications.

Kozio's evaluation copy of kDiagnostics includes functional tests for SATA, USB, gigabit Ethernet and the core MPC83xx features.

"I see significant value in using Kozio test software for manufacturing PowerQUICC devices", said Robert Applebaum, President of Silicon Turnkey Express.

Support for custom hardware platform using a PowerQUICC II Pro processor is now available.

As with all Kozio products, software can be customised to meet specific customer requirements.