XILINX SOLUTIONS

Floorplanner – The Xilinx high-level floorplanner is a graphic planning tool that lets you map your design onto the target chip. Floorplanning can efficiently drive your high-density design process.

Modular Design – This gives you the ability to partition a large design into individual modules. Each module can then be floorplanned, designed, implemented, and locked until the remaining modules are finished.

Partial Reconfigurability – Useful for applications requiring the loading of different designs into the same area of the device, partial reconfiguration allows you to flexibly change portions of a design without having to reset or completely reconfigure the entire device.

Internet Team Design – This allows managers to drive each team and its design module from a standard Internet browser using the corporate intranet structure.

High-Level Languages – As design densities increase, the need for a higher level of abstraction becomes more important. Xilinx is driving and supporting industry standards and their respective support tools.

EMBEDDED SW DESIGN TOOLS CENTER

Embedded Software Tools for Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGAs

The term "embedded software tools" most often applies to the tools required to create, edit, compile, link, load, and debug high-level language code, usually C or C++, for execution on a processor engine.

With the Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGA, you will be able to target design modules for either silicon hardware (FPGA gates) or as software applications, running on process engines like the embedded PowerPC hard core.

When it comes to embedded software development, Xilinx offers multiple levels of support. Xilinx supports the Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGA embedded processors with "Xilinx versions" of established tools for both low-cost and high-performance markets.

For hardware-centric engineers who want to move design modules into software running on the Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGA PowerPC core, Xilinx provides a simple and low-cost solution.

Alternatively, if software-centric engineers want a feature-rich environment in which to develop more complex applications, Xilinx supplies access to specialized best-of-class tools from the embedded industry leader.

This prevents you from having to embrace completely new development methodologies. You will be able to port existing legacy designs more easily to the Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGA.

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