Wind River, a global leader in device software optimisation (DSO), and Cavium Networks, a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products, have announced the immediate availability of their advanced multicore device development solution.
The solution couples Wind River's Workbench On-Chip Debugging and Wind River Compiler with Cavium Networks' OCTEON multicore processors, providing customers with a simplified development environment encompassing a complete development ecosystem, on-chip debugging tools, compilers, support and knowledge. Further, hardware and software developers will benefit from improved productivity and user experience when developing on cutting-edge multicore offerings, enabling customers to get higher-quality products working and delivered in less time and with fewer errors.
Multicore technology delivers significant advantages to device developers by providing higher processor performance, more effective power usage and a smaller physical footprint for embedded devices. However, multicore technology also requires new tools and a new approach to development that enables hardware and software developers to debug multiple cores simultaneously, while optimising the development process through the use of integrated tools.
Features and capabilities of Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging and the Wind River Compiler are specifically targeted at sophisticated multicore silicon like Cavium Networks 16-core OCTEON multicore MIPS64 processors. The solution is aimed at helping customers to:
* Quickly bring up the OCTEON hardware and debug interactions between the hardware and software running across multiple cores.
* Develop application software, including multi-threaded applications, in a seamless manner.
* Accurately synchronise start and stop of multiple cores in order to determine problem areas.
* Utilise On-Chip Debugging's unique System Mode debugging capabilities to view software activities on all cores at a given point in time in order to analyse the interaction of software running on multiple cores.
* Maximise JTAG bandwidth for multicore debug with Wind River's JTAG accelerator technology to help speed the development and analysis processes.
* Benefit from a scalable solution supporting debugging on scan chains with up to 128 cores.
* Streamline development across multiple homogeneous and heterogeneous cores, including those with different instruction sets.
* Use Wind River Compiler to generate optimised application code for OCTEON.
For more information contact Andrew Palmer, Embedded Industrial Solutions, +27 (0)12 547 6071, [email protected], www.eisol.co.za
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