Aldec Adds ARM Cortex-A9 Support to HES-7 ASIC Prototyping PlatformDate: Dec 10, 2012 Type: ReleaseHenderson, NV - December 10, 2012 – Aldec, Inc., in its commitment to support the growing requirements of hardware and software verification engineers, now supports ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore® application development and verification in its HES-7™ ASIC prototyping platform. HES-7 leverages Xilinx Virtex-7 2000T and Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoC and includes peripherals supporting media interfaces, memories and additional connectors to expand the development of a wide array of SoC applications. The HES-7 ASIC prototyping platform, coupled with open-source Linux, Android and FreeRTOS solutions available from Xilinx, provides software developers of ARM Cortex-A9 applications with a complete SoC platform. These applications, along with the 4 to 96 million ASIC gate scalable capacity of HES-7, deliver a powerful verification platform for design teams comprised of hardware and software engineers. Leverage Cortex-A9 Designers can now leverage the serial processing capabilities of the Cortex-A9 processor for applications that require intensive computations and operating systems with the parallel processing capabilities of HES-7 ASIC prototyping platform to create applications across a diverse range of markets including: Video, Communications, Control Systems and Bridging. Applications Enabled by: Market HES-7™ ARM® Cortex™-A9 Video Video/Image Capture and Processing Signal Encoding/Decoding Algorithm Implementation Operating System Graphic Overlay Analytics and Manipulation Communications Data Conversion Digital Pre-Distortion Connectivity Operating System Real Time Processing Parameter Updates Control Systems Data Acquisition Position Computing Human Machine Interface & Graphics System Interface & Control Floating Points Processing Diagnostics Bridging Image Capture & Processing Graphical User Interface Signal Encoding/Decoding Image Analysis Motor Vector System Interface & Control Essential SoC Peripherals New SoC Peripherals provide designers the ability to interface real-world stimuli to the design-under-test (DUT) on the HES-7 ASIC prototyping platform. Users can utilize gigabit Ethernet transceivers to develop networking applications, WLAN 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth® v2.1 to develop wireless systems, or High Performance HDMI Transmitter to develop home entertainment products. Memories and connectors provide additional data storage for read/write capability of today’s popular memory interfaces, and the ability to connect external hardware with the HES-7. Availability HES-7 with ARM Cortex-A9 support is available today with an industry-leading 1 year limited warranty. All current HES-7 customers with a dual-FPGA configuration will be provided the enhanced ARM Cortex-A9 daughterboard support with additional peripherals at no additional cost. Customers with single-FPGA HES-7 will receive the essential SoC peripherals daughterboard at no additional cost. Prototyping with HES-7 Available in a scalable capacity from 4 to 96 million ASIC gates Single and Dual FPGA Configurations Reduce Complex Partitioning Non-Proprietary daughterboard connectors Support for Xilinx Zynq Utilize ARM dual-core Cortex-A9 MPCore Microprocessor Maximum Frequency of up to 1 GHz Enhanced with NEON Extension and Single & Double Precision Floating point unit 32 kB Instruction & 32 kB Data L1 Cache Integrated processing platform with FPGA logic reduces bill-of-material (BOM) up to 40 Free open-source Linux, Android, and FreeRTOS solutions available from Xilinx Essential SoC Peripherals Included Media Interfaces – Ethernet PHY 10/100/1000, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, USB 2.0 DEVICE, USB 2.0 HOST, USB 2.0 OTG, HDMI, and Audio Codec (Stereo Speaker and MIC Interfaces) Memories – SD Socket, SPI Flash, I2C Flash, NAND Flash, SO-DIMM DDR2 Connectors – ARM Debug, RS232, I2C, SPI, and GPIO Additional 4x DDR3 Memory peripheral included with Xilinx Zynq About Aldec Aldec Inc., headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, is an industry leader in Electronic Design Verification and offers a patented technology suite including: RTL Design, RTL Simulators, Hardware-Assisted Verification, ASIC Prototyping, Design Rule Checking, IP Cores, DO-254 Functional Verification and Military/Aerospace solutions. www.aldec.com Aldec is a registered trademark of Aldec, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. Media Contact: Christina Toole, Aldec, Inc. +1.702.990.4400christinat@aldec.comwww.aldec.com
