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News Release from: Kozio | Subject: Support for custom PowerPC designs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 March 2007
Software supports custom PowerPC designs
Kozio now provides support for custom product designs using Freescale's MPC832x series of PowerPC processors, including the e300 core as well as the QUICC Engine technology.
Kozio now provides support for custom product designs using Freescale's MPC832x series of PowerPC processors, including the e300 core as well as the QUICC Engine technology With Kozio diagnostics, those using this series of Freescale processors in a variety of applications, including industrial quality control, will be able to speed product development and reduce time to market significantly
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our first client to use our diagnostics software for the Freescale MPC8323 PowerPC processor is a leading manufacturer of mobile broadband infrastructure equipment", said Al Arendt, Director of Sales at Kozio.
"We're pleased to bring these turnkey diagnostic suites to our clients, to help them reduce designs costs and deliver reliable products faster".
"This is part of our effort to attend to growing needs in a variety of industries, by horizontally expanding our CPU and peripheral controller coverage, and vertically expanding our product features".
He adds that Kozio diagnostic software is a unique tool that can help internal design and quality control teams work more effectively than ever.
"Kozio's software comes with its own boot loader, which performs all necessary CPU, bus, and memory configurations, allowing you to run diagnostics with no other software present", Arendt said.
"In addition, this platform provides an easy-to-use tool for loading other applications into SDRAM, Flash, DSPs, or FPGAs, helping designers accelerate the board bring-up process".
Kozio's diagnostic software now supports the MPC8321, MPC8321E, MPC8323, and MPC8323E processors from Freescale.
An evaluation version of kDiagnostics for the MPC832xE MDS reference platform is available immediately.
The evaluation software allows Freescale processor purchasers to test the software, and then purchase a full version for their custom platform after getting a feel for the many benefits the product has to offer.
Kozio will be exhibiting at the Embedded Systems Conference - Silicon Valley, from 3rd to 5th April 2007.
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