Introducing the ISE® Design Suite: Embedded Edition. The ISE Design Suite: Embedded Edition provides embedded development tools and IP tailored to the needs of developers incorporating one or more embedded processors into their designs. With the ISE Design Suite: Embedded Edition, users have rapid access to a complete design solution to support domain specific design flow for FPGA designs leveraging hard and/or soft embedded processors. In addition, the Embedded Edition includes the base level FPGA design tools and technologies. The ISE Design Suite: Embedded Edition includes the following products:
The ISE Design Suite Embedded Edition supports the base methodolgy required for the Embedded Domain Targeted Design Platform.
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For details on enhancements available in all Editions, visit the "What's New" area of the ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition.
Experience a complete software flow for the new Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 targeted design platforms. All Editions of the ISE Design Suite include new features specifically added to enhance Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 performance. For details on enhancements available in all Editions, visit the "What's New" area of the ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition.
All ISE Design Suite products and select Xilinx IP are now licensed using FLEXnet Publisher from Acresso Software Inc. The incorporation of this EDA industry standard licensing solution allows greater flexibility for ISE Design Suite Users.
Products can now be licensed in different ways to best suit a users needs:
Xilinx has simplified the process of obtaining and licensing software, allowing you to download and license Xilinx software and most other FLEXnet licensed Xilinx IP products from a single website. Customer license or CAD-tool administrators now have improved ability to manage Xilinx software and IP licenses from a single web-location IP licensing procedures now merged with software licensing flow. This will greatly reduce the time it takes to obtain an IP license to just a few hours, or even minutes, in some cases.
The design environment for the development of the software for the embedded processor(s) is now available as a stand-alone product, independent from the ISE Design Suite: Embedded Edition. Software developers now have an independent product delivering a feature-rich C/C++ code editor and compilation environment, source code version control, and seamless debugging/profiling of embedded targets. The SDK no longer requires the installation of the larger EDK or other ISE Design Suite products.
Improved interoperability of the ISE Project Navigator with EDK allows a much more seamless development environment. Platform Studio now provides automatic UCF (User Constraint File) handling.
Greater integration between System Generator for DSP™ and the Software Developers Kit (SDK) enables algorithm developers to use the software development environment of SDK for the embedded portion of their design which will run on the embedded processor.
Users can now create embedded designs with multiple hard and/or soft core processors from within Base System Builder. While EDK has supported this ability in the past, it has been a technical challenge for designers. Using BSB, designers have a much more automated way of leveraging multiple processors in their design.
SDMA (Soft Direct Memory Access) reduces the size of MPMC, especially on Spartan® Generation FPGA devices.
Improvements in the MicroBlaze soft processor core reduced area requirements, especially for designs targeting the LUT-6 architecture.