Virage Logic Releases Major Update of the Open Source GNU and Linux Toolchains for Its ARC® Processor Cores
June 23 2010 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Virage Logic Corporation (NASDAQ:VIRL), the semiconductor
industry's trusted IP partner, today announced it is investing in
its ARC processor product portfolio by releasing the ARC GNU 2.3
Toolchain for its complete range of ARC processor cores and the ARC
Linux 1.3 Operating System for its ARC® 750D processor. The suite
contains the ARC Linux 2.6.30 kernel for the ARC 750D processor,
and a GCC 4.2.1 based ARC GNU Toolchain for Virage Logic’s complete
range of ARC processor cores. Virage Logic is committed to release
regular updates of the ARC Open Source Tool Suites to keep the ARC
GNU and Linux tools up to date with the current standards. All of
the ARC Open Source tools are available for free download at
www.SourceForge.com.
“Linux and GNU have seen renewed interest among software
developers thanks to the exploding popularity of Android,” said
Mike Thompson, director of product marketing for Processor and SoC
Solutions at Virage Logic. “Virage Logic is committed to supporting
GNU and Linux for its ARC processor cores to give customers a broad
choice in the selection of development tools for their specific
application.”
The ARC GNU and ARC Linux Toolchains are professional quality
products that have been thoroughly verified with the extensive
community test suites. The tools are supported by Virage Logic and
have been optimized to take full advantage of the ARC processor
architecture. Virage Logic’s ARC Open Source Tools are supported on
the ARC Instruction Set Simulators that enable software development
long before silicon is available.
About Virage Logic’s ARC Linux and ARC GNU Toolchain
Release
The ARC Linux kernel allows ARC 750D processor users to leverage
the abundance of free Open Source Software available in the Linux
ecosystem. This enables them to build complex applications quickly
while greatly reducing cost and time-to-market by re-using Open
Source libraries and packages. The kernel is tuned to take full
advantage of the ARC processor architecture features for optimal
performance and comes with BusyBox, uboot and InitRamFS to
jumpstart development.
The ARC GNU Toolchain is available for Virage Logic’s complete
range of ARC cores, both the ARC 6xx and ARC 7xx series. It fully
supports the ARCompact instruction set architecture, as well as the
ARC DSP and ARC SIMD extension instructions. It contains a GCC
compiler and GDB debugger for C and C++, with the must have
libraries and utilities that make up a complete software toolchain.
The GNU Toolchain offers a widely used and cost-effective
development environment. It is a standard known by software
professionals around the world and provides a well-known and
cost-effective development environment for ARC processors.
Price and Availability
The ARC Open Source Tools are available now free of charge and
may be downloaded at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/arc-linux/.
About Virage Logic
Virage Logic is a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual
property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits. The
company's highly differentiated product portfolio includes
processor solutions, interface IP solutions, embedded SRAMs and
NVMs, embedded test and yield optimization solutions, logic
libraries, and memory development software. As the semiconductor
industry's trusted IP partner, more than 400 foundry, IDM and
fabless customers rely on Virage Logic to achieve higher
performance, lower power, higher density and optimal yield, as well
as shorten time-to-market and time-to-volume. For further
information, visit http://www.viragelogic.com.
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