What's New in EDK 10.1
The ISE® Design Suite 10.1 delivers the perfect combination of design performance and productivity. Whether your design requires a flexible embedded processing solution, a specialized flow for DSP, or optimized logic, the ISE Design Suite 10.1 helps you achieve your goals quickly.
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EDK 10.1, a component of the ISE Design Suite, provides design productivity improvements that enable higher performance processing systems.
Optimal System Performance
Intelligent tools, IP and processing architecture unleash performance gains
EDK 10.1 introduces numerous enhancements to optimize ‘system’ performance such as:
- Innovative PowerPC® 440 and advanced processor block architecture enable high performance embedded systems
- MicroBlaze™ v7.1 enables greater cache interface flexibility via Xilinx Cache Link (XCL) interface supporting all instruction and data memory accesses
- Multi-Port Memory Controller empowers greater memory interfacing options, including Video Frame Buffer Controller, Error Correction Checking (ECC) for SDRAM memories, and Memory Interface Generator (MIG) tool support
- Virtex®-II Pro FPGA PowerPC 405 support for High Performance PLB v4.6 bus
Ultimate Productivity
The EDK and Xilinx Platform Studio tool suite streamline processing design
EDK 10.1 helps you meet your embedded system requirements quickly via:
- Introducing new PowerPC 440 design support with the Virtex-5 FXT device family
- All Xilinx development tool products are now available for Free 60 day Evaluation on a single media set, or accessible from the Xilinx Download Center
- Unified Interoperability: Inter-tool integration enhancements between Xilinx Embedded and DSP tools including:
- Simplified inclusion of MicroBlaze v7 and PLB v4.6 modules into System Generator for DSP projects
- Automatic generation of System Generator for DSP “pcore” modules for easy inclusion in an embedded design
- Usability improvements as well as Simplified Installation and Registration process
World Class FPGA Design Solutions
An entire ecosystem of Tools, IP, boards, kits and third party supplier support
Solution Improvements and Innovations across the board:
- Ease-of-use updates to numerous elements of the EDK Tools and IP, including updates to Software Development Kit (SDK) IDE, GNU Tools, FlashWriter, LinkerScript, lwIP (Lightweight IP stack), Debugging, Trace and Simulation support as well as much more
- New Operating System support for Windows Vista 32-bit, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5 32-bit and 64-bit, and SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (32 and 64-bit)
- New and Improved IP Peripheral Cores, including MicroBlaze 7.1 with improved Cache interfacing, SGMII* EMAC-to-PHY interface capability added to the XPS_LL_TEMAC core
- New and updated Device Drivers for improved RTOS support
- New Integrated HW/SW Development Kit and board support
- Embedded Processing Development Kit, Spartan®-3A DSP 1800A MicroBlaze Edition, bundled hardware, software, IP, cables and designs
- Industry leading ecosystem of embedded RTOS/Tool providers, including: GreenHills, Mentor, MontaVista, Wind River and more - including embedded Linux 2.6 solutions like LynuxWorks BlueCat Linux for MicroBlaze soft processor
* = Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface
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