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Xilinx unveils ARM-based processing architecture
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010, 18:07 IST
Bangalore: Programmable platforms provider Xilinx introduced the architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform that promises to deliver better levels of system performance, flexibility and integration to developers of a wide variety of embedded systems.
The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor-based platform enables system architects and embedded software developers to apply a combination of serial and parallel processing to address the challenging system requirements presented by the global demand for embedded systems to perform increasingly complex functions.
"Today's embedded software developer is being tasked to build complex applications that require tremendous levels of system performance, and they need to deliver that performance within tightly managed cost, schedule and power budgets," said Vin Ratford, Xilinx Senior Vice President for Worldwide Marketing and Business Development.
A software-centric development flow is enabled by a processor-centric approach which presents a full processor system - including caches, memory controllers and commonly used connectivity and I/O peripherals - that boots and can run a variety of operating systems (OS) at power-up, such as Linux, Wind River's VxWorks and Micrium's uC-OSII.
