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News Release from: QuickLogic | Subject: QuickMIPS SDK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 August 2002
System development kit gains RTOS
support
The QuickLogic QuickMIPS system development kit (SDK) has been certified for the Wind River VxWorks AE real time operating system (RTOS).
The QuickLogic QuickMIPS system development kit (SDK) has been certified for the Wind River VxWorks AE real time operating system (RTOS) The latest step in delivering a complete out-of-the-box design solution gives engineers accelerated development times by delivering access to a wide range of integrated, market-specific solutions from Wind River members of its industry-leading embedded WindLink Partners Programme
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Nov 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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QuickLogic's board support package (BSP) is fully compatible with VxWorks AE 1.1 as well as Wind River's Tornado Tools 3.1, a comprehensive suite of core and optional cross-development tools and utilities.
Both are optimised for the MIPS processor platform.
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"Partnering with Wind River supports our goal of creating a complete design environment for engineers working with QuickMIPS and its associated SDK", said Lit Lam, senior director and general manager of QuickLogic's ESP product line.
"We're delivering low-power, high-performance silicon and backing it up with a flexible development system that is supported by industry-standard third-party design tools".
The complete QuickMIPS development solution includes the SDK, software drivers for real-time operating systems such as VxWorks AE, and a QuickMIPS system model.
It also offers the first on-chip instrumentation (OCI) solution that enables integrated debugging of the programmable logic fabric and the CPU.
In addition to the run control and debugging features that are accessible through the MIPS EJTAG port, the device features a configurable logic analysis module (CLAM), which allows the user to trace and trigger on up to 128 specified internal nodes (32 at a time) within the programmable logic fabric.
Crosstriggering between CLAM and MIPS CPUs enables instructions to be stopped and traced back to the fabric, thereby speeding software-hardware codesign and coverification.
The system model, SDK and the programmable logic on the QuickMIPS device enables designers to make software and hardware tradeoffs early in the design cycle, reducing design time and cost.
Boot code in Flash memory can be downloaded through the USB port on the SDK.
Also, the Ethernet ports on the SDK allow fast downloading of code for application development.
"Tornado-certification is available to those partners that pass Wind River's integration tests.
The certification of QuickLogic's sophisticated development solution provides our customers with the confidence that they are getting a well-integrated product that runs within the VxWorks AE environment, and can use the power of the Tornado tools", said Caroline Yao, director of partner solutions at Wind River.
QuickLogic's complete development solution and VxWorks AE are available now.
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