Loughborough, UK and Burlingame, CA, USA – August 13th, 2012 — CommAgility and PolyCore Software (PSI) announced today a partnership to speed up multicore software development with tools for CommAgility’s DSP boards. PSI’s Poly-Platform™ simplifies multicore programming, saving development time and enabling OEMs to bring products tomarket faster.
Poly-Platform is a collection of productivity tools and runtime communications engine, which PSI plans to port to several of CommAgility’s AdvancedMC modules. Using a friendly GUI, Poly-Platform cuts development time and cost for migrating applications to, and developing applications for, multicore platforms. Poly-Platform also provides tools to optimise run-time performance, enabling designers to get the most from Texas Instruments’ (TI’s) multicore DSPs.
The first board supported will be the CommAgility AMC-2C6678 module, a high performance signal processing card that provides two fixed and floating-point TMS320C6678 DSPs from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), each with eight 1.25GHz C66x cores. The AMC-2C6678 also includes a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA and a fast, flexible range of I/O with Gigabit Ethernet and Serial RapidIO (SRIO).
“For engineers looking to harness the power of TI’s KeyStone architecture and C66x multicore DSPs, the combination of CommAgility’s hardware and PSI’s software provide a way to further optimize and enhance their programming experience,” said Ramesh Kumar, business manager, multicore processors, TI. “We are excited about this collaboration between PolyCore Software and CommAgility, as well as the ease of programming benefits our customers should enjoy as a result.”
As well as multiple cores on one board, the Poly-Platform also provides support for more than one AMC-2C6678 module in a system. The module’s IDT CPS-1848 Gen2 SRIO switch provides a 20Gbps per port Serial RapidIO infrastructure, which enables fast data transfer between DSPs and the FPGA – both on-board and off-board between multiple modules.
The collaboration between PSI and CommAgility is aimed at applications that require the high levels of performance provided by multicore DSPs, across sectors including telecoms, networking, medical and military/aerospace.
Support is also planned for new CommAgility boards to be announced later in 2012, which will include multiple TI TMS320C6678 DSPs. These boards will significantly improve the DSP core count compared to CommAgility’s existing AMC modules.
About the Texas Instruments Design Network
Polycore Software and CommAgility are both members of the TI Design Network, a premier group of independent, well-established companies that offer products and system-level design and manufacturing services complementing TI’s semiconductors to a worldwide customer base to accelerate product innovation and time-to-market. Network members provide product design, hardware and software system integration, turnkey product design, RF and processor system modules, reference platforms, software development, proof-of-concept design, feasibility studies, research, certification compliance, prototyping, manufacturing, and product life cycle management. For more information about the TI Design Network, please visit http://www.ti.com/designnetwork.
About PolyCore Software:
PolyCore Software, Inc., provides development tools and run-time solutions to simplify application development and improve development productivity for multicore, multi-processor architectures. Improvements in time to market, development costs and risks are achieved through software reuse, ease of use development tools, and the generation of optimized run time program elements. Design for today’s architectures and run on tomorrow’s architectures.
Website: www.polycoresoftware.com.
Contact: sales@polycoresoftware.com
Tel: +1 (650) 570-5942
About CommAgility:
CommAgility is a leading manufacturer of signal processing AMC modules for wireless baseband applications, combining flexible CPRI/OBSAI antenna interfaces, the latest TI DSPs and Xilinx FPGAs, and high bandwidth on and off-card communications using Serial RapidIO and Ethernet.Customers around the world use CommAgility products to develop high performance applications in both wireless and non-wireless spaces, and recent designs include test equipment, trial systems and base stations for a wide range ofwireless standards especially WiMAX, LTE and LTE Advanced.
