Date: 11/09/2008

Impulse C-to-FPGA tool is integrated into LynuxWorks' BlueCat embedded Linux OS

LynuxWorks and Impulse Accelerated Technologies in their new technical collaboration effort have integrated the Impulse C-to-FPGA tools with LynuxWorks' BlueCat embedded Linux operating system. With this new feature, software developers can write C algorithms and pipe them for parallel processing on FPGA. This can enhance the performance by 10 to 100 times in image, signal and data processing algorithms.

The other key benefit as said by Sonia Leal, Senior Product Manager at LynuxWorks is,
BlueCat applications can be migrated to the LynxOS® real-time operating system for stricter, hard real-time performance, with little or no rewriting. Similarly, C code for hardware accelerators that has been developed using Impulse CoDeveloper can be migrated easily to different FPGAs and even to different embedded processor interfaces such as Xilinx APU and FSL, without significant rewrite.

David Buechner, Impulse Vice President points out another advantage of more software-oriented design tools including familiar C-language constructs.

A reference example demonstrating the combined Impulse and LynuxWorks tool flow for the Xilinx ML507 development kit is available at no charge from Impulse.