What's New in the ISE Design Suite 10.1 — Embedded Design Tools

ISE Design Suite 10.1 offers an integrated environment for embedded design.

The ISE® Design Suite 10.1, the latest release of the industry-leading design tools from Xilinx, delivers the perfect combination of design performance and productivity. Whether your design requires a flexible embedded processing solution, a specialized flow for DSP development, or just optimal high-performance logic, the ISE Design Suite 10.1 can be configured to help you achieve your design goals quickly.

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The Embedded Development Kit (EDK) bundle is an integrated software solution for designing embedded processing systems. This pre-configured kit includes the award winning Platform Studio tool suite as well as all the documentation and IP that you require for designing Xilinx Platform FPGAs with embedded PowerPC® hard processor and/or MicroBlaze™ soft processor cores.

Ultimate Productivity

The EDK and Xilinx Platform Studio tool suite streamline processing design

EDK 10.1 helps you meet your embedded system requirements quickly via:

• Introducing new PowerPC 440 design support with the Virtex™-5 FXT device family
• Unified interoperability: Inter-tool integration enhancements between Xilinx Embedded and DSP tools
• Usability improvements as well as simplified iInstallation and registration process
• Free Evaluation access to all other Xilinx ISE Design Suite tool products

Optimal System Performance

Intelligent tools, IP and processing architecture unleash performance gains

EDK 10.1 introduces numerous enhancements to optimize ‘system’ performance such as:

• Innovative PowerPC 440 and advanced processor block support
• MicroBlaze soft processor v7.1 enables greater cache interface flexibility
• Multi-Port Memory Controller v4 empowers greater memory interfacing options
• High-performance PLB v4.6 bus enhancements boost Virtex-II Pro FPGA PowerPC 405 operation

World Class FPGA Design Solutions

An entire ecosystem of tools, IP, boards, kits and third party supplier support

Solution Improvements and Innovations across the board:

• Ease-of-use updates to numerous elements of the EDK including tools and IP
• New operating system support for more environment options
• New and improved IP peripheral cores
• New and updated device drivers for improved RTOS support
• New Integrated HW/SW Development Kit support
• Industry leading ecosystem of embedded RTOS/tool providers