The microprocessor development tools manufacturer has added Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs to the validated target devices, aside from the current TRACE32 support for the PowerPC405 processor found in earlier Virtex devices as well as the MicroBlaze soft processor.

In multi-core designs, any combination of these cores can be debugged using a single TRACE32 debug interface.

The devices are said to be the industry’s first FPGAs with embedded PowerPC440 processor blocks, high-speed RocketIO GTX transceivers and dedicated XtremeDSP processing capabilities to offer designers high levels of system integration and performance.

The company says each processor, with integrated 32KB instruction and 32KB data caches, delivers up to 1,100 DMIPS at 550 MHz.

Lauterbach also offers an off-chip real-time trace capability with trace filters and triggers that stores data in up to 2GB of external high-speed memory. There are kernel awareness extensions for uCLinux, Linux QNX, VxWorks, Nucleus PLUS and many other operating systems.