Celoxica Gives European Debut for MeP Development Kit Including Toshiba's Second Generation Audio VLIW CoProcessor; Celoxica Showcases Toshiba's CoProcessor in MeP Development Kit at DATE
MUNICH, Germany—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 6, 2006—
Celoxica (LSE:CXA) today announced the latest release of
its development kit for Toshiba's Media embedded Processor (MeP). The
kit, with Toshiba's second generation MeP based audio VLIW Coprocessor
(AVC2), provides programmable hardware and Celoxica's ESL design
software that enables designers to develop digital audio processing
applications that utilize the AVC2's new instructions and customized
operations.
The kit enables designers to deploy Celoxica's DK Design Suite to
prototype and validate MeP based designs that include the AVC2. By
using the DK Design Suite designers can easily implement the AVC2 and
custom design additional coprocessors directly from software
algorithms. Pre-built libraries supplied with the kit provide access
to the MeP custom instructions as well as extensive hardware
peripherals such as dual gigabit Ethernet, dual DVI and dual S-Video.
Celoxica's co-simulation manager simplifies HW/ SW verification and
connects into Instruction Set Simulators. Over 50 design examples are
shipped with the kit.
Masataka Matsui, Senior Manager, Digital Media SoC Dept., SoC
Research & Development Center, Toshiba's Semiconductor company said,
"By making AVC2 technology available through the Celoxica's MeP
Development Kit, designers can quickly see the benefits that the AVC2
can bring to their MeP based SoC designs."
"This MeP Development Kit builds on previous collaborations with
Toshiba and makes it even easier for designers to access the very
latest high performance multimedia technology," said Sandeep Ram, vice
president of EMEA sales for Celoxica. "Wrapping our C-based ESL design
tools and hardware into the kit provides a low-risk, high-productivity
route to design exploration for digital media SoC."
About Celoxica
A leader in electronic system level design (ESL), Celoxica is
enabling the next generation of advanced electronic products by
producing tools, boards, IP and services that turn software into
silicon. Celoxica technology raises design abstraction to the
algorithm level, accelerating productivity and lowering risk and costs
by generating semiconductor hardware directly from C-based software
descriptions. Adding to a growing installed base, Celoxica provides
the world's most widely used C-based behavioral design and synthesis
solutions to companies developing semiconductor products in markets
such as consumer electronics, defense and aerospace, automotive,
industrial and security. Celoxica is a publicly traded company on the
Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange under the
symbol CXA. For more information, visit: www.celoxica.com
About MeP
MeP is Toshiba's proprietary configurable processor that allows
designers to customize processor configurations, including custom
instructions and embedded memory capacity, in about 1 million
different combinations. The processor features small chip size, low
power consumption and high-speed processing. It is based on a 32-bit
RISC processor, appropriate for digital media products that require
processing of large volume of image and audio data, such as digital
TVs and DVD recorders.
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