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(2006), "Multiprocessor software specialist launches unified development platform for FPGAs and DSPs", Microelectronics International, Vol. 23 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/mi.2006.21823bab.007
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Multiprocessor software specialist launches unified development platform for FPGAs and DSPs
Multiprocessor software specialist launches unified development platform for FPGAs and DSPs
Keywords: Electronics industry, Computer software
Multiprocessor software company 3L has launched Diamond FPGA, a unified development platform for the seamless creation of applications with FPGA and DSP components. Diamond provides an easy to use, flexible environment where DSP plus FPGA technologies can be quickly leveraged and applied to demanding signal processing applications.
Diamond FPGA builds a single application file by taking DSP and FPGA tasks and automatically combining them with all the necessary support logic. Loading this one file initializes every DSP and FPGA in the system and starts the application running.
Peter Robertson, Managing Director of 3L, believes that the main attraction of Diamond is its ease of use. “We have avoided the rush to uncontrolled complexity which is wrongly seen as the way to get performance. By keeping Diamond simple we have created a development platform that is both efficient and accessible.”
Driving Diamond's development is the increasing deployment of systems that integrate DSP and FPGA, where the FPGA acts as a co-processor or hardware accelerator. To generate the hardware components in this hardware- software co-design environment, engineers employ direct VHDL techniques or high-level design tools from Celoxica coupled with model- based design using Simulink from The Mathworks and System Generator from Xilinx. Communication between hardware and software is then managed automatically by Diamond's built-in message-passing software.
Visit support@3L.com for further information.