Partnership delivers development tools for Altera SoC FPGAs

6th February 2014

Altera Europe

Nat Bowers

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As a result of their strategic partnership, Altera and Wind River have jointly announced that they have developed and deployed tools and solutions for Altera’s SoC FPGA devices. Wind River’s operating systems and development tools now support Altera’s multi-core ARM processor-based SoC platforms.

Wind River's embedded operating systems (VxWorks real-time operating system and Wind River Linux) and Workbench development tools enable software architects and developers to design high-performance multi-core real-time systems and also to achieve the full potential of Altera's multicore ARM-based SoC devices. Designed to support multi-core processor architectures and symmetric multi-processing with real-time optimisations, Wind River Hypervisor virtualisation technology enables Linux and VxWorks to run simultaneously in an asymmetric multiprocessing mode.

Chris Balough, Senior Director, SoC Product Marketing, Altera, comments: “Together with Wind River, we are combining the leading SoC FPGA platform with a comprehensive package of multi-core tools and software that will help developers address the challenges that embedded multi-core processors present. Wind River’s commitment to provide support for the Altera SoC platforms with their proven operating systems and development tools will accelerate design development time and take our mutual customers from product prototyping to commercialisation faster.”

“As embedded system developers turn to powerful multi-core platforms for power and performance benefits, software content increases in size and complexity; by using our operating systems and development tools with Altera’s multi-core SoC platform, embedded system designers have a streamlined solution that leverages the key multi-core benefits, while maintaining real-time responsiveness and minimizing risk to bring products to market faster. We are excited to collaborate with Altera to develop a growing number of solutions for their longer term SoC roadmap,” commented Dinyar Dastoor, Vice President, Product Management, Wind River.

All these Wind River products are available now on the Altera Cyclone V SoC and will be available soon for the Arria V SoC, Arria 10 SoC and Stratix 10 SoC. Altera 28nm SoCs FPGA devices are available now. Support for the 28nm Altera SoC devices is available now for Wind River Linux, VxWorks, Hypervisor, Workbench development and debugging tools including the Wind River ICE II and Probe.