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News Release from: Lauterbach | Subject: Trace32 for Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 May 2008
Debugger turns attention to FPGA cores
The Trace32 debugger now supports all hardware debug features of the PowerPC440 cores embedded in the Virtex-5 FXT FPGA family.
Lauterbach has launched Trace32 debugging tool support for the PowerPC 440 processor cores embedded in the recently announced Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGA family Building on its long-time support of the PowerPC440 processing architecture, Lauterbach has added Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs to its list of validated target devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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This is in addition to current Trace32 support for the PowerPC405 processor found in earlier Virtex devices as well as the MicroBlaze soft processor.
In multicore designs, any combination of these cores can be debugged concurrently using a single Trace32 debug interface.
The Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT devices are the industry's first FPGAs with embedded PowerPC440 processor blocks, high-speed RocketIO GTX transceivers and dedicated XtremeDSP processing capabilities to offer designers high levels of system integration and performance.
Each processor, with integrated 32Kbyte instruction and data caches, delivers up to 1100DMIPS at 550MHz.
Tightly coupled to the PowerPC440 blocks is a new integrated 5x2 crossbar processor interconnect architecture that provides simultaneous access to I/O and memory for high system throughput.
Trace32 supports all hardware debug features of the PowerPC440 core, access to ISOCM memories in Virtex-II Pro, Virtex-4 FX and Virtex-5 FXT devices, and Flash programming.
To conserve logic resources on the FPGA, Lauterbach also offers an off-chip real-time trace capability with sophisticated trace filters and triggers that stores data in up to 2Gbyte of external high-speed memory.
Additionally, there are kernel awareness extensions for uCLinux, Linux QNX, VxWorks, Nucleus Plus and many other operating systems.
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