San Jose and Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Altera Corp. and MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that the MontaVista Linux Professional Edition now supports Altera's Excalibur EPXA1 Development Kit.

The Excalibur EPXA1 device — the smallest of Altera's Excalibur embedded processor PLDs — integrates a complete embedded ARM922T processor subsystem with an FPGA fabric to provide designers with the ability to quickly create and evaluate differentiated end products. Additionally, the ability to dynamically reconfigure hardware and/or software in Altera's Excalibur EPXA1 device is a benefit to many industrial and communications applications requiring in-field reprogrammability.

The Altera EPXA1 Development Kit includes a development board plus a complete set of embedded system tools targeting the Altera Excalibur EPXA1 device, allowing software and hardware development to begin even before a design is committed to a custom PCB.

An Ethernet-based system reconfiguration reference design, which ships with the EPXA1 Development Kit, illustrates the features of the MontaVista Linux Professional Edition and Excalibur EPXA1 device. The FPGA image is remotely uploaded to the Excalibur device and the appropriate device drivers are dynamically loaded to the kernel, enabling use of a single platform to build flexible and scalable SOPC solutions.

Altera's EPXA1 Development Kit includes a Preview Kit for MontaVista Linux Professional Edition. The Preview Kit offers a hands-on demonstration of the powerful development environment provided with MontaVista Linux Professional Edition and demonstrates MontaVista Linux running on the Excalibur EPXA1 device.

 
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