Embedded Linux and FPGAs Accelerate Embedded Software Development

Impulse C integrates with BlueCat Linux for performance and prototyping for Xilinx FPGAs

Impulse Accelerated Technologies has announced technical collaboration with Lynuxworks under which libraries and reference examples combining the Impulse C-to-FPGA tools with LynuxWorks BlueCat operating system wil be available. This combination enables software developers to write C algorithms and easily refactor them for parallel processing on FPGA, a methodology that has shown 10 - 100X performance improvements in image, signal and data processing algorithms.

The Impulse development environment increases productivity by providing C-language compilation, optimization and hardware generation for FPGAs. The tools also handle the hardware interconnections between embedded PowerPC and MicroBlaze processors and custom C-language hardware accelerators. This development method reduces the risks of experimenting with FPGAs while reducing time-to-market.

BlueCat Linux represents a highly stable, commercial-grade embedded operating system. BlueCat is available integrated with the Xilinx EDK for support of the available PowerPC and MicroBlaze cores. The Xilinx EDK provides a rich feature set for developing BlueCat Linux applications and configuring custom BSPs using Xilinx hardware designs.

A reference example demonstrating the combined Impulse and LynuxWorks tool flow for the Xilinx ML507 development kit is available at no charge from Direct Insight.

Further details on our Impulse C pages