Cadence Announces Production Release of Virtual Platform for Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform
February 27 2012 - 8:00AM
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global
electronic design innovation, today announced that the company's
virtual platform for the Xilinx Zynq™-7000 Extensible Processing
Platform (EPP) is available as a production release. Designed to
streamline the embedded software development process, the virtual
platform enables simultaneous development of hardware and software
before hardware availability, providing significant savings in
development costs and time-to-market. The Zynq-7000 EPP virtual
platform, built on the Cadence® Virtual System Platform, was
already used by Missing Link Electronics, a Cadence customer and
Xilinx Certified Alliance Program Member to design an application
development platform for automotive infotainment and medical
systems. Demonstrations of Missing Link Electronics' platform are
available this week at Xilinx's booth (1.205 in Hall 1) at Embedded
World in Nuremberg, Germany.
"Time-to-market is extremely important for our customers' new
smart products, and the challenge lies in the software complexity,"
said Endric Schubert, founder and CTO of Missing Link Electronics,
Inc. "The Cadence virtual platform enables us to regularly
pre-validate our rich open source software stack, even when
decoupled from our FPGA hardware development environment."
"Stable, high-performance software applications are critical to
the success of any sophisticated embedded system," said Michał
Siwiński, group director of product marketing, System &
Software Realization Group, Cadence. "Software engineers need
access to pre-verified virtual platforms to build applications in
confidence, knowing that the code they write on the virtual
platform will quickly and cleanly converge with hardware."
A fast, pre-verified, feature-rich model of a Xilinx Zynq-7000
EPP, the virtual platform is based on the Cadence Virtual System
Platform technology. A component of the Cadence System Development
Suite, the Cadence Virtual System Platform features tightly
integrated hardware and software debugging (including multi-core
debug support), mixed domain simulation and acceleration and the
ability to automatically build new model TLM 2.0 register
interfaces with error-checking, test generation, and documentation
from an IP-XACT description. In addition to mirroring the EPP
hardware, the virtual platform can be extended using
transaction-level modeling (TLM) to support custom devices that
will ultimately be instantiated within the Zynq-7000 device's
programmable logic.
"Our Zynq-7000 EPP combines a complete dual-core ARM processor
system with our 28nm programmable logic, giving customers the
ability to build differentiated products yet still use an
industry-standard processing solution that they are familiar with,"
said Mark Jensen, director, processing platforms marketing at
Xilinx. "We've worked closely with Cadence to develop a virtual
platform for our hardware to reduce customers' design times and
enable early software development."
Availability The Cadence virtual platform
for the Zynq-7000 EPP is available now to customers who are in the
Xilinx early access program. Pricing is available upon request.
About the Zynq-7000 EPP The Zynq-7000
family is Xilinx's first Extensible Processing Platform (EPP). This
new class of product combines an industry-standard ARM dual-core
Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processing system with Xilinx 28nm unified
programmable logic architecture. This processor-centric
architecture offers the flexibility and scalability of an FPGA
combined with ASIC-like performance and power and the ease of use
of an ASSP. The extensible Virtual Platform Early Access program
has begun and will open to a broader customer base by the end of
this year.
About Cadence Cadence enables global
electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the
creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. Customers
use Cadence software, hardware, IP, and services to design and
verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking
and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company
is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design
centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the
global electronics industry. More information about the company,
its products, and services is available at www.cadence.com.
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in the United States and other
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