ARM-Based Architecture for Embedded Systems
30 June 2010
Xilinx has introduced the architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform that, claims the company, will deliver new levels of system performance, flexibility and integration to developers of a wide variety of embedded systems.
The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor-based platform enables system architects and embedded software developers to apply a combination of serial and parallel processing.
“Today’s embedded software developer is being tasked to build complex applications that require tremendous levels of system performance, and they need to deliver that performance within tightly managed cost, schedule and power budgets,” said Vin Ratford, Xilinx Senior Vice President for Worldwide Marketing and Business Development. “By creating an architecture within a familiar ARM processor-based development framework, this new Extensible Processing Platform can be the engine of innovation for many design teams held back today by performance bottlenecks.”
A software-centric development flow is enabled by a processor-centric approach which presents a full processor system – including caches, memory controllers and commonly used connectivity and I/O peripherals – that boots and can run a variety of operating systems (OS) at powerup, such as Linux, Wind River’s VxWorks and Micrium’s uC-OSII. The ARM architecture and its Connected Community ecosystem further maximise productivity for developers of embedded systems, while the performance is achieved by Xilinx’s architecting the subsystem around ARM’s dual-core Cortex-A9 MPCore processors, each running at up to 800 MHz, combined with the parallel-processing capabilities of Xilinx’s high-performance, low-power 28-nanometer programmable logic.
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