Key features

• Unified SDK for all product families of TORNADO-A AdvancedMC (AMC) modules:
  • TORNADO-A6678x AdvancedMC (AMC) modules with multicore TI TMS320C6678 DSP and Xilinx FPGA
  • TORNADO-AZ/FMC AdvancedMC (AMC) modules with embedded ARM Cortex-A9 cores of Xilinx Zynq-7000 AP SoC
  • TORNADO-AZU+/FMC+ AdvancedMC (AMC) modules with embedded ARM Cortex-A53 and Cortex-R9 cores of Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC FPGA
  • TORNADO-Axxx/FMC AdvancedMC (AMC) modules with MicroBlaze IP for Xilinx FPGA
• Supports development of CPU/DSP resident applications for AMC-modules and of remote control PC applications
• Comes as a set of high-level API function libraries and system level applications
• Supports all applicable free of charge open source RTOSs (Linux, FreeRTOS, TI RTOS) per CPU/DSP platform of AMC-module
• TASDK/ThreadX toolkit with high-performance pre-certified industry-grade Microsoft Azure ThreadX® RTOS is available for development of high-performance demanding applications for CPU/DSP of all TORNADO-A AdvancedMC (AMC) modules and to comply with product certification requirements. Super-high RTOS and network performance. Special bundles and prices.
• Includes unique high-level "bare-metal" API for all AMC-modules
• Unified cross-platform high-level API provides quick portability of CPU/DSP applications across different families of AMC-modules
• CPU/DSP resident applications run on all boards of selected family of TORNADO-A AdvancedMC (AMC) modules
• Supports in-chassis AMC-to-AMC control communication
• Supports remote control of AMC-modules from host PC and Android devices via 1GbE LAN/WAN
• Automatic detection, remote control and management of all "visible" AMC-modules at host PC and Android devices
• Supports stand-alone operation of AMC-modules

Benefits

• Comes standard with all TORNADO-A AdvancedMC (AMC) modules
• Robust, structured and well documented SDK
• Requires minimal knowledge of device details
• Dramatically shortens time to market for designed applications
• Allows user to focus on high-level principal application functionality design rather than on low-level details
• Saves ~12 months of qualified programming from the scratch
• Source code is available under special license agreement
• Royalty free

Software components

• Open source TI RTOS/NDK RTOS and "bare-metal" API for core #0 of TI TMS320C6678 DSP of TORNADO-A6678x AdvancedMC (AMC) modules
• Open source Linux, FreeRTOS+LwIP RTOS and "bare-metal" API for the ARM cores and MicroBlaze IP processors of TORNADO-AZx/FMC and TORNADO-Axxx/FMC AdvancedMC (AMC) modules
• High-performance TASDK/ThreadX toolkit with Microsoft Azure ThreadX® (AMP/SMP) UL/TUV pre-certified RTOS and NetX®, NetXDuo®, FileX® middleware for CPU/DSP of all AMC-modules for demanding applications
• User extendable unified cross-platform high-level API function libraries for DSP/CPU of all AMC-modules
• User extendable PC API function libraries (Windows and Linux) for remote control via 1GbE LAN/WAN
• Remotely configured "CPU/DSP Bootloader" for autonomous boot of core applications, FPGA bitstreams and data arrays from FLASH memory on AMC-module activation
• "CPU/DSP System Manager" command processor application for remote CPU/DSP control/management, in-chassis AMC-to-AMC control communication, core applications loading, FPGA programming, and more via AMC 1GbE ports and LAN/WAN
• "Host System Manager" GUI application for PC Windows/Linux and Android devices for remote control and management of all AMC-modules connected to 1GbE LAN/WAN
• API for FPGA IPs
• Multiple demos for device test and startup for user projects

Development tools

• TI Code Composer Studio tools and MicroLAB Systems  MIRAGE-NE1/NC2 JTAG emulators to compile and debug TMS320C6678 DSP applications for TORNADO-A6678x AdvancedMC (AMC) modules
• Xilinx Vivado tools and Xilinx JTAG emulators to compile and debug applications for ARM cores of TORNADO-AZ/FMC and TORNADO-AZU+/FMC+ AdvancedMC (AMC) modules, and for MicroBlaze IP processors of TORNADO-Axxx/FMC AdvancedMC (AMC) modules
• Xilinx Vivado tools and Xilinx JTAG emulators to compile and debug FPGA logic projects for all TORNADO-A AMC modules
• Microsoft Visual Studio tools to compile and debug Windows applications for host PC
• GNU tools to compile and debug Linux applications for host PC

Technical support and services

• Full lifetime warranty, technical support and software update
• Custom Design service to design applications on Customer specifications
   

Software structure for TORNADO-A6678x AdvancedMC (AMC) module with TASDK® tools
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Software structure for TORNADO-AZ/FMCAdvancedMC (AMC) modules with TASDK® tools
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TASDK System Host Manager GUI application for PC (Windows and Linux)
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TASDK System Host Manager GUI application for Android® devices
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Thread Metric RTOS performance test results for TORNADO-A AdvancedMC (AMC) modules
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IPERF 1GbE RTOS Networking performance test results for TORNADO-A AdvancedMC (AMC) modules
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