AMCC PowerPC
AMCC PowerPC is a leading vendor of PowerPC processors for DSP applications. They offer a range of products to meet the needs of a broad set of OEM developers for:
- automotive
- aerospace and military
- consumer
- communications
- and motor control.
- System on a chip (SoC) solutions
- DSP Posix kernel
- DSP libraries
- Complete Posix I/O solutions
- Debugging and downloading support
- Host simulation support
- Eclipse based IDE development
- Algorithm development tools
- Training
- Support
- And development support.
The PowerPC is the only processor offered by AMCC that RoweBots supports, which offers both high performance and excellent price performance. The combination of 32 bit processing with a high performance floating point unit (altevec) gives the AMCC PowerPC the performance it needs to excel in many embedded applications. The System On A Chip (SoC) solutions offered by AMCC provide the simplicity required by many OEMs.
AMCC PowerPC has complete DSPnano RTOS support. This support includes:
DSPnano offers the best of DSP development while maintaining a hardware independent solution.
AMCC PowerPC applications often involve multiprocessing and distributed processing. RoweBots DSPnano provides support for many AMCC parts including those which are used on a variety of board level products from major vendors. DSPnano completely supports these approaches by providing distributed, shared memory multicore and shared memory multiprocessor solutions.
Mixed AMCC PowerPc is also possible. Adding other types of heterogeneous processors is an ideal solution to many of the problems encountered developing systems because the best processor for the job at hand can be selected. DSPnano offers completely heterogeneous processing to match these capabilities offered by the AMCC PowerPC. A good example of this type of optimization is using advanced Coldfire communications processors mixed with AMCC PowerPC units for DSP to balance the application.
The unison AMCC PowerPC data sheet can be found here.
