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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:30

Using Mobius you can easily and quickly generate C & bridges. But Xilinx users still need to assemble these into a XPS project -- and creating a multiprocessor XPS project from scratch is not easy.

Now there is an automated way! Use the tool XPSupdate to

  • parse the Mobius source to identify all SW targets, and bridges
  • augment any existing BSB-created XPS project with the Mobius-generated SW applications and bridges
  • replicates Microblaze microprocessors and peripherals if there are several SW targets

The resulting XPS project is ready to compile!

XPSupdate has several immediate benefits:

  • Xilinx engineers say that you should budget about 1 man-month to create a typical XPS project -- XPSupdate does this for you in seconds. 
  • Xilinx does not provide any significant demo multiprocessor implementations -- XPSupdate automates this incompletely documented implementation path, automatically handling details such as mapping stdin/stdout to all microprocessors.
  • XPSupdate builds HW/SW implementations using a variety of user-selected bridges (e.g. PLB, OPB, FSL)
  • All SW applications use Mobius channels (mapped to bridges) to synchronize and communicate, so you can start the microprocessors in any order

 

 

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