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News Release from: QuickLogic | Subject: QuickMIPS SDK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 November 2002
Programmable SoC gains RTOS support
The QuickMIPS programmable SoC has been certified to support Green Hills Software's Integrity RTOS and Multi 2000 integrated development environment.
The QuickMIPS programmable SoC has been certified to support Green Hills Software's Integrity RTOS and Multi 2000 integrated development environment This combination provides embedded system designers with a complete "out-of-the-box" solution that significantly increases design performance while reducing development time by allowing the concurrent debug of hardware and software
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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By porting QuickLogic's board support package (BSP) to the Green Hills Integrity and Multi 2000 embedded system tools, developers now have a comprehensive suite of core and cross-development tools and utilities, optimised for the MIPS processor platform.
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"Now that QuickLogic's BSP is certified for Integrity, customers can create their QuickMIPS programmable SoC designs with industry leading, royalty-free software development tools", said Dan Mender, Director of Integrity Business Development for Green Hills Software.
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"Using the QuickMIPS SDK as part of this environment will reduce their design time significantly, along with the end product's per-unit cost".
"The Green Hills RTOS and IDE fit our QuickMIPS product model very well", said Judd Heape, system applications manager for the QuickMIPS product line.
"Green Hills shares our goal of providing a complete, low-risk design environment for embedded systems designers - so more of the customers time can be spent adding functionality that differentiates their end product".
The complete QuickMIPS development solution includes the SDK, software drivers for real-time operating systems such as Green Hills Software's Integrity, and a QuickMIPS system model.
It also offers the first on-chip instrumentation (OCI) solution from First Silicon Solutions (FS2) 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 the FS2 CLAM configurable logic analyser module system, 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 the CLAM system 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.
QuickMIPS, first introduced in 2000, combines a secure programmable system-on-chip with a complete design environment.
The QuickMIPS architecture contains an embedded MIPS 4Kc 32bit processor core, 2x 10/100 Ethernet MACs, UARTs, PCI controller, 16Kbyte SRAM and other peripherals with 500K gates of programmable FPGA fabric for hardware customisation and acceleration.
QuickMIPS incorporates the AMBA bus for high-speed interconnection of peripherals and logic.
Debugging is easily accomplished using the onboard EJTAG bus and associated CLAM debugging tools.
QuickMIPS is both hardware and software programmable, and is based on QuickLogic's ultra-secure, patented Vialink technology.
QuickLogic's complete development solution and the Integrity RTOS are available now.
QuickLogic is also planning to provide QuickMIPS SDK board support package (BSP) for Green Hill Software's Integrity RTOS in November 2002.
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