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MULTIPROCESSOR SOFTWARE SPECIALIST LAUNCHES UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM FOR FPGAs AND DSPs
24 November 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland – 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.
“With more and more developers using our DK Design Suite to accelerate signal processing in DSP/FPGA systems, the similarity of programming paradigm using CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes) makes DK and Diamond a good fit for rapid development and systems integration,” said Steve Chappell, Director of Applications Engineering at Celoxica.
“3L has been supporting true multiprocessor DSP applications on our hardware for the last ten years,” says Flemming Christensen, Managing Director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. “Now Diamond makes it easy to use the on-board FPGAs as well.”
Diamond FPGA lets developers optimise their applications, using FPGAs for operations requiring the fine-grain parallelism of hardware and DSPs for the more sequential, thread-based functions. “My customers choose the modules they want and 3L Diamond takes care of the rest,” notes Dr Nory Nakhaee, CEO of USA-based SDSP Inc. “Thanks to Diamond, they can adapt or update the underlying hardware to meet changing specifications and standards with little or no code change.”
Developers needing, advice, information or detailed data sheets can contact 3L at support@3L.com or visit the 3L.com.
More Information
Dr Peter S. Robertson, 3L Limited
2F3, 104 Spring Gardens, Edinburgh, EH8 8EY, Scotland
Tel. +44 131 620 2641 E-mail: psr@3L.com Web: www.3L.com
High res image can be downloaded from: www.clickintopr.com/editors/articleDetail.asp?pjID=232
NOTES FOR EDITORS
3L Limited has been providing multiprocessor software development systems worldwide since 1987. Its current products concentrate on the C6000 family from Texas Instruments and the TigerSHARC from Analog Devices. 3L is an independent company.
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