San Jose and Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. and Xilinx Inc. today announced that MontaVista Linux Professional Edition will support the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA. This technology advancement enables developers of embedded Linux products to target a completely programmable, re-programmable and field-upgradable system platform (silicon). The collaboration allows the broad base of Linux developers to accelerate their embedded designs with the ability to reconfigure, enhance, and optimize those designs throughout the entire product development life cycle.

On a single programmable platform chip, the Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGA integrates fully embedded systems components, hard and soft IP, and millions of gates of customizable logic. Virtex-II Pro offers hard IBM PowerPC 405 processor cores, custom IP generation, multi-gigabit serial transceivers and up to 10 Mb of on-board RAM. This rich set of features supports a wide range of applications by providing a very high level of flexibility to system designers.

The integration of the Virtex-II Pro hardware platform with embedded Linux yields a flexible design environment, in which engineers can lower product costs and accelerate their time to market. Consequently, developers will benefit from the advantages of open source software to lower their product costs on a single, company-standard hardware platform that can target many different applications. This facilitates a quick start to design projects and supports fixes, enhancements and performance optimization to hardware or software throughout the entire product development process.

Additionally, Xilinx has joined the MontaVista Partnering program.

 
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