Platform Studio and EDK

This award winning Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) integrated development environment contains a wide variety of embedded tools, IP, libraries, wizards, and design generators to quickly facilitate the creation of your custom embedded platform. The Software Development Kit (SDK) is available as part of EDK and now also as a stand-alone product.

One unified development tool suite supports both PowerPC® hard processor core and MicroBlaze™ soft processor core with over 100 embedded peripherals that all connect together seamlessly using Xilinx Platform Studio. When it’s time to develop and debug your C or C++ code, use the Software Development Kit.

Embedded Development Kit Contents

For Hardware Engineers: Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS)

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for creating embedded processor designs

Base System Builder wizard for quickly generating complete single or dual processor systems

Generates a complete embedded processor system for stand-alone use or as a component in a larger design

Creates implementation and simulation netlists

For Software Developers: Software Development Kit (SDK)

Eclipse-based Software development and debug environment

Stand-along installation for smallest installation footprint

Automatic library generation and compilation

Generates board support package for stand-alone and 3rd party operating systems

Debug multiple Xilinx processor cores at once

Microprocessor and Embedded Peripheral Cores

PowerPC 405 and PowerPC 440 Cores

MicroBlaze Soft Processor Core

Over 100 pieces of “standard” embedded IP included: UARTs, counters, timers, interrupt controllers, memory controllers, Ethernet MACs and a lot more.

Evaluation versions of high value IP peripherals like PCIe, USB, TEMAC and more (for complete list visit Processor System IP Catalog)

Device Family Support

Virtex®-6 LXT, SXT Early Access

Spartan®-LX, LXT Early Access

Virtex-5 LX, LXT, SXT, FXT

Virtex-4 FX, LX, SX

Extended Spartan-3A

Spartan-3, 3E