Dynalith Systems and Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced the successful integration of a new tool kit for engineers simulating and prototyping high performance computer systems.

The kit supports a full development path from Visual Studio, GCC, and other compilers, through hardware/software partitioning to a deployable FPGA-based development board. The integrated tool flow streamlines development by creating an environment for hardware/software partitioning experimentation, and by automatically generating APIs.

Software developers in particular are looking to accelerate algorithms in programmable platforms, but have been traditionally limited by the complexities of generating appropriate hardware interfaces to streams, signals memories and I/O. This new kit automates these.

The main benefit from this integration is to run host programs along with logic operating in FPGA fabric. A wide range of host programs are available as a part of Impulse C, including royalty free, ready to run image processing, financial, math, and scientific programs.