Design, test and implement mixed hardware/software applications in ANSI C.

• Use standard C development tools such as Visual Studio, CodeWarrior or GCC.
• Model complex hardware/software algorithms and systems entirely in C language.
• Generate FPGA hardware from your C language descriptions, automatically.

Compile your C code to FPGA hardware via VHDL

• Target popular FPGA devices, with or without embedded microprocessors.
• Optimize your applications to take advantage of the extreme parallelism inherent in FPGAs.
• Export generated VHDL hardware descriptions to popular FPGA synthesis and simulation tools.

Make dramatic, system-level design changes with minimal effort

• Accelerate your applications through increased parallelism.
• Create and verify prototype hardware modules, fast!
• Partition applications between FPGAs and embedded or external processors.

Automatically generate hardware/software interfaces

• Generate interfaces for selected processor and FPGA combinations.
• Create a custom platform with the optional Universal Platform version.

PRODUCTS: FPGA hardware/software codesign

CoDeveloper Universal CoDeveloper Universal supports FPGAs from Altera, Xilinx and others. CoDeveloper Universal allows you to create your own FPGA-based custom platform and to target systems with external processors, including DSPs. CoDeveloper Universal is compatible with all popular HDL synthesis and simulation tools and with popular C development tools including Visual Studio, Codewarrior and GCC.

CoDeveloper for Xilinx CoDeveloper for Xilinx provides C to RTL design and compilation for Xilinx FPGAs including Spartan and Virtex II. The included Platform Support package supports mixed software/hardware platforms based on the Xilinx MicroBlaze embedded processor. (Support for PowerPC embedded processors is available at an additional charge.) CoDeveloper for Xilinx is compatible with Xilinx ISE and Platform Studio as well as third-party synthesis tools.

CoDeveloper for Altera CoDeveloper for Altera provides C to RTL design and compilation for Altera FPGAs including Stratix and Cyclone. The included Platform Support package supports mixed software/hardware platforms based on the Altera Nios and Nios II embedded processors. CoDeveloper for Altera is compatible with Altera Quartus and SOPC Bulder as well as third-party synthesis tools.

CoDeveloper for Xilinx Virtex II Pro CoDeveloper for Xilinx Virtex II Pro provides C to RTL design and compilation for all Xilinx FPGAs including Spartan and Virtex II (as above) and adds support for the embedded PowerPC processor. CoDeveloper for Xilinx Virtex II Pro is compatible with Xilinx ISE and third-party synthesis tools.