SoC FPGA becomes a weapon for siege

Xia Xiaodong, Altera's product marketing manager for the Asia Pacific region, said that Altera SoC FPGAs link ARM dual-core processors to advanced Altera SoC FPGA technology, using dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processors and hard memory controllers and peripherals. High-performance interconnects have been established between the system and the FPGA. The Altera SoC platform helps meet the stringent requirements of embedded engineers for system performance, system power, board area, and system cost.

Unlike other FPGA vendors, which focus on FPGA product R&D strategies, Altera is maintaining the premise of high-performance R&D products, while at the same time attaching importance to the support of SoC partners. Xie Xiaodong further pointed out that there are many embedded operating systems and development tools that have announced support for Altera SoC FPGAs. Although Altera is a latecomer in the embedded field, it is willing to serve as a platform to aggregate more embedded development partners.

Undoubtedly, the support of Altera SoC partners provides better protection for SoC applications in the embedded system market.

The ARM DS-5 Altera Edition Toolkit provides embedded software developers with unprecedented full-chip visualization and control capabilities through a standard DS-5 user interface. In addition, it is also beneficial to eliminate debug barriers in the integrated dual-core processor subsystem and Altera SoC FPGA architecture.

In the context of increasingly complex R&D cases, SoC FPGAs help Altera meet the stringent requirements of embedded engineers for system performance, system power consumption, board area, and system cost. Fuji Software's Android operating system expands the advantages of the SoC platform and enables networking functions, bringing more operability and flexibility to embedded engineers. QNX's QNX system has advantages in smoothness and graphic display, and can run Android virtual machines. This combination of Fujitsu's Android operating system can help embedded engineers bring more applications. In addition, Lauterbach's debugger and compiler products and McCytech's uC/OS-II, uC/OS-III, and GNU compiler tools bring a variety of differentiated support to the Altera SoC platform.

In fact, the strong combination of embedded system software vendors and FPGA manufacturers is a general trend, and is also the differentiation of FPGA vendors' successful entry into the embedded system market. When the FPGA architecture reaches a certain level, how to use software blessing to ensure the entire system is more stable, to achieve greater differentiation, and expand application innovation, in order to speed up the market segmentation of ASIC, ASSP and DSP vendors in the embedded system market It is not without reason.