Semiconductor "five giants" joined the Nexus forum 5001

Semiconductor industry leader Tensilica Analog, Devices Inc., NEC Corp., StarCore LLC and Texas Instruments announced to join the growing industrial organization to promote the multi-core embedded system debugging. To achieve this goal, Nexus 5001 forum 23 member companies are committed to promoting the adoption of Nexus standards.

The Nexus standard (IEEE-ISTO Nexus 5001) is a kind of interface of embedded processor development tool, which can help the design engineer to identify the real-time problem of software layer or hardware layer. Nexus 5001 standard is the only open debugging standard in the world, which is used to solve the problem of multi processor debugging in embedded system with a common interface. Design company can reduce the time and cost of the product through the transplantation of different architecture with multiple chip manufacturing enterprises jointly developed standard debugging rules, and to reduce the risk, improve the overall quality and accelerate time to market.

Nexux forum 5001 long-term leaders and advocates, Free scale Semiconductor Inc Senior Systems Engineer Ron Stence said, "self built, improve the controllability of real-time visibility and embedded processor core Nexus forum is only committed to the pursuit of the field. We are very pleased to see these leading technology companies to join the Nexus forum, each new member has begun to make an important contribution to the Nexus forum and standards."

The development tool of DSP director Derek Leadbetter said, "Analog Devices improve CrossCore development tools for developing and debugging capabilities - including VisualDSP++, EZ-KIT Lite and EZ-Extenders, to support members of the Blackfin family of processors in the future. The Nexus 5001 standard provides a set of performance and advanced features that enable tracking data and real-time data from the target system to be delivered at a sustainable rate."

Amnon StarCore, vice president of engineering, said Rom, "the value of the product to make the work easier for customers is an important goal of StarCore. Join Nexux 5001 forum that we can not only on a unified group contribution, but also to ensure that customers receive all the benefits from an open standard debugging, which is consistent with our business model."

Tensilica Steve, vice president of the company Roddy said, "in the complex of SoC (system on chip), each chip uses more Tensilica configurable processor core to replace the logic module, because Tensilica configurable processor core speed faster, provide comparable performance, and allow the function of firmware layer in chip manufacturing after the completion of modification. Join the Nexus forum standardization work, will enable more and more nuclear SoC design engineers need a wider range of world-class debugging tools globalization."

Benefits of Nexus 5001 standards

Nexus allows the reuse of development tools and directly supports multi-core embedded processors, thereby significantly reducing the development time and resource inputs of embedded systems. The Nexus standard to establish that engineers and programmers can use the simulator and debugger, logic analyzer, the hardware in loop simulation and control for embedded processor workstation problems found in real-time systems and positioning.

It also ensures that the microprocessor system can reuse the diagnostic equipment in multiple architectures and design cycles. For example, the flexibility of a standard Nexus interface allows an engineer to use the same toolkit for each Processor standard with Nexus. Another major advantage is the ability of Nexus to perform multi processor debugging on a single Nexus interface.