Tektronix to expand support for high-end microprocessors

BANGALORE: Tektronix has announced that it would provide TLA700 Series Logic Analyzer support for Motorola's MPC7400 Power PC microprocessor with AltiVecä technology, and a range of new microprocessors and buses. Besides the Motorola MPC7400 for high-end embedded designs, the newly supported microprocessors include devices from IBM, Intel, Motorola, Cyrix, AMD and ARM.






The latest additions to the TLA 700 and its extensive range of development and debug products gives designers an extensive range of solutions for high-performance applications, such as telecommunications, medical imaging, speech recognition and 3-D graphic, a company release said.





Tektronix now supports several new Motorola Power microprocessors including the MPC7400 on TLA 700 Series Logic Analyzers. The latest version of the PPC family, MPC7400 is tailored for the needs of high performance embedded designs, along with the popular G4 Mac Personal Computers from Apple.

Motorola Power QUICC II MPC8260, the high performance version of the QUICC series of devices designed for the fast-growing telecom market and the MPC8240, a highly integrated device using a high-performance PPC60x core, integrated PCI bus controller and dedicated memory bus interface for the embedded Power PC market are also supported by Tektronix.






Tektronix also announced that it has expanded its support to encompass important, new bus technologies. These include the IEEE-1394 Serial Bus, a high speed serial communications bus used for interconnecting peripheral devices to PCs and interconnecting multi-media appliances. The popular PC-100 Memory bus and the new PC-133 memory bus is also supported by Tektronix in conjunction with third-party partner New Wave. The TLA 700 Series will also directly support RAMBUS, the high-speed memory bus that is expected to be the de-facto standard in future desktop PCs and servers.





In addition, TLA 700 logic analyzers now support Motorola's ColdFire MCF5206e, along with established support for the MCF5206. The MCF5206e adds a significant performance boost to the revolutionary variable-length RISC architecture of the ColdFire MCF5206 and is designed to meet the price performance requirements of the embedded consumer market. Support is also now available for Motorola's 32-bit M-300 series M-CORE which is designed for use in power sensitive applications such as PDAs, GPS, and other portable devices.