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| Tensilica's Diamond Standard Software Toolkit is Available Tensilica, Inc. has announced immediate availability of free evaluation versions of the Diamond Standard Software Toolkit, the advanced software development and modeling environment for the Diamond Standard processor core family. Software and firmware engineers will want to explore the Diamond processor software development tools to learn how easy it is to port application code to the Diamond core processor family, and to experience the code performance and code size advantages of the Tensilica Xtensa instruction set architecture. Powerful visualization tools enable software developers to graphically view and compare profiling results. Hardware design teams will want to take advantage of this free evaluation to experiment with the clock-cycle accurate, pipeline-modeling instruction set simulator and the associated performance modeling visualization views within the graphical user interface that show pipeline activity, cache utilization rates, and cycles spent on bus cycle activity. The Diamond Standard Software Toolkit evaluation version includes Xtensa Xplorer - Diamond Edition, a comprehensive graphical user interface based on the popular Eclipse software environment. This user interface should be familiar and easy to navigate by most engineers. Xtensa Xplorer has been proven and refined for several years as the main user interface for Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processor family. The Diamond Standard Software Toolkit evaluation version also includes Tensilica's XCC Compiler, an advanced C/C++ compiler with inter-procedural analysis, advanced loop optimizations, ability to automatically vectorize code, feedback-directed compilation and profiling-based feedback compilation; a cycle-accurate instruction set simulator, a complete GNU-based tool-chain for debugging, assembling, and linking your programs, and software libraries for the six Diamond Standard controllers, CPUs and DSPs. The Toolkit is available for immediate download from Tensilica's web site athttp://www.tensilica.com write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |