Platform Studio 8.1i

Features: Xilinx,

Inc., supplier of programmable logic solutions, has announced immediate

availability of the 8.1i version of the Xilinx Platform Studio tool suite for

embedded processing design. This latest release incorporates a new graphical

user interface that streamlines platform-based design by making common,

repetitive tasks easy and intuitive. Platform Studio 8.1i also delivers an

extensive array of usability features to further simplify, abstract and

accelerate embedded system development with the Xilinx PowerPC hard processor

and MicroBlaze soft processor cores.

The improved menu-based graphical user interface and usability features

introduced with the 8.1i release encompass all aspects of the tool suite, making

it easier and faster for embedded developers to construct systems that meet

their requirements. The new system block diagram viewer enables engineers to

visualize the entire system hierarchy, and then automatically create detailed

design documentation using the design report generator. The new system assembly

panel provides color-coded graphical connectivity views to aid editing of bus

connections, which can be used in conjunction with the 'click-to-connect'

feature to prevent incompatible connections. Simplified filtering capabilities

also enable developers to rapidly generate custom design views. Other

enhancements include new, intuitive intellectual property (IP) core

configuration dialogs and IP core search capabilities.






Platform Studio 8.1i supports PowerPC and MicroBlaze processor designs for the
Xilinx Virtex-4, Virtex-II Pro, Spartan-3 and Spartan-3E Platform FPGAs. It is

immediately available for the following computing platforms: Windows 2000 SP2,

SP3, SP4, and XP SP1, SP2, Solaris 2.8/5.8 and 2.9/5.9, as well as Linux Red Hat

Enterprise 3.0.