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News Release from: Pender Electronic Design | Subject: GR-XC3S-1500
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 April 2005
Board supports embedded FPGA core design
A new board supports the early development and fast prototyping of small Leon based systems and computer peripherals and offers general purpose FPGA development environment.
Pender Electronic Design has a new product for FPGA development The GR-XC3S-1500 board has been developed in co-operation with Gaisler Research and targeted especially to support the early development and fast prototyping of small Leon based systems, computer peripherals and as general purpose FPGA development environment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"This GR-XC3S-1500 kit represents excellent value - there couldn't be an easier or better way to get started with your Leon or Spartan3 development", says Jiri Gaisler, CTO and founder, Gaisler Research.
"The new Spartan3 development board has been designed to provide users with fully featured basis to get started with their developments quickly and at a reasonable cost", adds Richard Pender, Managing Director, Pender Electronic Design.
The Leon processor is a synthesisable VHDL model of a 32bit processor with an instruction set compatible with the IEEE1754 (SPARC V8) instruction set.
The Leon processor was initially developed to provide a high performance fault tolerant processor for space applications and is currently in use in European and international space programmes.
To enable development of system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices using the Leon core, the full VHDL source code is available both under the GNU GPL licence and under commercial licensing conditions.
The GR-XC3S-1500 board is priced at Eu 750, and will be available in May.
Product documentation and information on accessories can be downloaded from the Pender website.
Source code for the GRLIB/Leon3 processors can also be downloaded together with evaluation versions of software tools and simulators.
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