Embedded Development Kit; Edk Components; Platform Studio Features - Xilinx ML410 User Manual

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Embedded Development Kit

EDK Components

Platform Studio Features

ML410 Embedded Development Platform
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The Embedded Development Kit (EDK) is a series of software tools for designing
embedded processor systems on programmable logic and supports the IBM PowerPC
hard processor core and the MicroBlaze™ soft processor core. This pre-configured kit
includes the Platform Studio Tool Suite.
The Embedded Development Kit is distributed as a single media installable CD image.
The components of the Xilinx EDK are:
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Hardware IP for the Xilinx embedded processors and its peripherals
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Drivers, libraries, and a microkernel for embedded software development
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Platform Studio tools
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Software Development Kit (Eclipse-based IDE)
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GNU compiler and debugger for C development for MicroBlaze and PowerPC
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Documentation
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Sample projects
The Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) is a graphical user interface technology that integrates all
of the processes from design entry to design debug and verification. XPS streamlines
development with the embedded features of the Xilinx Virtex-4 FX family of devices,
featuring the industry's only immersed dual PowerPC processors and innovative
Auxiliary Processor Unit (APU) controller for accelerating processing functions.
XPS automates the configuration of user-defined hardware co-processing modules used to
replace application-specific software algorithms. These hardware accelerator functions
operate as extensions to the PowerPC 405 processor, thereby offloading the CPU from
demanding computational tasks. Utilizing the direct processor-FPGA coupling presented
by the APU controller and its high throughput interfaces, flexible design partitioning with
synchronization of hardware and software is greatly simplified and overall system
performance is improved. The suite also includes system profiling and analysis tools to
help optimize performance and target design functions for acceleration in FPGA
hardware.
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