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CodeWarrior(tm) Development Studio, PowerQUICC(tm) III Edition Available To
Speed Development of Networking Applications Using Motorola PowerQUICC III
Architecture
Posted by WirelessDevNet March 24, 2003
Development Studio Supports PowerQUICC III Devices Containing PowerPC(r)
Cores; Single Source for Tools, Boards, OS, Application Code; Available Now
SMART NETWORKS DEVELOPER FORUM, Dallas - March 24, 2003 -
Metrowerks, a Motorola company (NYSE:MOT), today announced availability of
CodeWarrior(tm) Development Studio, PowerQUICC(tm) III Edition, an
integrated development environment (IDE) for the entire development cycle
from support, research and evaluation to final product or end reference
designs based on Motorola's PowerQUICC III(tm) System-on-Chip Architecture
(SoC) including the MPC8540 and MPC8560 devices containing PowerPC(r) cores.
The CodeWarrior Development Studio, PowerQUICC III Edition was engineered to
give customers access to an integrated, comprehensive product offering
targeted for the access, edge and core segments of the NetComm market. The
offering is attractive for customers who use more than one RTOS, enabling
the RTOS to be better targeted to the solution rather than trying to fit one
RTOS to all solutions.
Metrowerks offers the hardware and software to enable easy and seamless
transitions in the development cycle from support, research and evaluation
to final product or end reference design. As a wholly owned subsidiary of
Motorola, and the Motorola recommended solution, Metrowerks is uniquely able
to offer development tools that are available prior to silicon availability,
so that developers can get started on their designs immediately. This not
only helps speed deployment of applications, but also allows developers to
take advantage of tighter SoC integration, and high performing core and
Communications Processor Module (CPM) speeds. Furthermore, the CodeWarrior
Development Studio, PowerQUICC III Edition ships with integrated support for
the e500 Instruction Set Simulator (ISS), designed to provide customers the
ability to develop and test code with the ISS prior to testing with the
actual silicon.
The CodeWarrior Development Studio, PowerQUICC III Edition consists of three
editions: Application Development Edition, Platform Development Edition and
Hardware Development Edition, for a more cost-effective approach to the
complete development cycle. Each of these editions incorporate the
CodeWarrior IDE, the newest compiler, debugger, and PowerTAP(r) PRO
in-circuit-emulator, along with ADS evaluation boards, operating systems,
protocol stacks and application code and was designed to fully support the
PowerQUICC III(tm) family of processors. Combining these components into a
single development studio is designed to allow developers to perform
hardware evaluation and bring-up of the PowerQUICC III processor, RTOS
kernel development and adaptation to PowerQUICC III designs and application
development on RTOS/ PowerQUICC III targets for embedded Linux(r) operating
system and OSE real-time operating system.
Selecting one development studio for the entire development process helps to
reduce user costs and encourages immediate deployment of new products using
the PowerQUICC III silicon as soon as it is available.
"With the introduction of the CodeWarrior Development Studio, PowerQUICC III
Edition, the developers of network systems can improve time-to-market by
researching, evaluating and prototyping prior to committing to their own
hardware design," said Peter Dawson, founder and chairman of IneoQuest
Technologies. "Working closely with Metrowerks, IneoQuest is able to provide
tools that can create real world network traffic, thus further enhancing the
CodeWarrior Development Studio, PowerQUICC III Edition. This allows the
development engineer to determine system throughput at a much earlier stage
in the process. This becomes increasingly important as networks move into
the Gigabit range and beyond."
"As technology evolves, companies need complete solutions to bring products
to market as soon as the silicon is available," said Jim Welch, president
and CEO of Metrowerks. "Metrowerks is uniquely equipped to enable
developers with the tools they need to bring a fully-tested and operational
reference design using the power of Motorola processors to the Netcom
market."
The Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development Studio PowerQUICC III Edition
supports both the MPC8540 and the MPC8560, the first PowerQUICC III devices
containing the e500 PowerPC ISA core. With its high degree of integrated
functionality, the MPC8560 makes an ideal solution for integrated control
and forwarding plane processing in multi-service access platforms, central
office switching and transmission, wireless infrastructure, gigabit and
terabit routers, voice gateway products, IP Virtual Private Networks and
optical networking equipment. Balancing processor performance with I/O
system throughput, the MPC8540 is a powerful control element for network
routers and switches, storage subsystems, network appliances, and print and
imaging devices.
"Immediate availability of the CodeWarrior Development Studio, PowerQUICC
III Edition is expected to enable developers to shorten development cycles
and decrease time to market, in advance of access to the PowerQUICC III SoC
architecture," said David Perkins, vice president and general manager of
Motorola's Networking & Computing Systems Group (NCSG). "By adding support
for the entire PowerQUICC family of processors, Metrowerks offers Motorola
NCSG customers more RTOS options and provides a single set of development
tools to take them from pre-silicon research to final deployment of the end
product."
Metrowerks already offers comprehensive development solutions for the
PowerQUICC I and PowerQUICC II(tm) families of integrated communications
processors as well as best-in-class development tools consistent and
compatible across the Motorola processor families, from 8-bit
microcontrollers to advanced digital signal processors. This consistency
across Motorola platforms can help to significantly shorten the learning
curve for developers.
About Metrowerks
Metrowerks creates CodeWarrior software and hardware products and services
for developers, with a particular focus on the following industries:
consumer electronics; transportation; wireless; and networking and
communications. The CodeWarrior product line includes hardware and software
development tools and middleware that enable customers to accelerate their
time to market. The company also offers services, including training and
custom software development. Metrowerks corporate headquarters are in
Austin, Texas; Metrowerks Europe is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland; and
Metrowerks Japan is headquartered in Tokyo. For more information, please
visit www.metrowerks.com.
About Motorola, Inc.
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated
communications and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2002 were $26.7
billion. Motorola is a global corporate citizen dedicated to ethical
business practices and pioneering important technologies that make things
smarter and life better for people, honored traditions that began when the
company was founded 75 years ago this year. For more information, please
visit: www.motorola.com
About Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector
As the world's #1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor
Products Sector creates DigitalDNA(tm) system-on-chip solutions for a
connected world. Our strong focus on wireless communications and networking
enables customers to develop smarter, simpler, safer and synchronized
products for the person, work team, home and automobile. Motorola's
worldwide semiconductor sales were $4.8 billion (USD) in 2002. For more
information please visit www.motorola.com/semiconductors.
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