Third Party Alliances

XUP continually strives to make available next generation software and hardware design flows for the engineering curriculum. Through the XUP alliance program, academics can get access to the latest development tools and boards offered by third party vendors.

Hardware Development Systems

Boards for Education and Research
Vendor	Description
Digilent, Inc.	Low Cost University FPGA Development and Accessory Boards
BEEcube	High performance FPGA computing platforms and software solutions
Mango Communications	Mango communications designs platforms for cutting-edge wireless research
Nallatech	FPGA DSP Computing Cards
Lyrtech	Advanced DSP-FPGA Platforms
Amirix	Advanced Platform FPGA Development Boards
Annapolis Micro Systems	High Performance COTS FPGA Development
Sundance	FPGA-DSP Platforms

EDA Partners

Logic Design Tools
Vendor	Description
Synopsys	Synplicity™ FPGA synthesis
Cadence	NC-Verilog™ and NC-VHDL™ simulators
Mentor Graphics	Modelsim® simulator

DSP Design Tools
Vendor	Description
The Mathworks	Matlab® and Simulink® tools are required for using System Generator for DSP

Embedded Design Tools
Vendor	Description
PetaLogix	PetaLinux - Embedded Linux for the MicroBlaze CPU architecture
ImpulseC	C-To-FPGA CoDeveloper Compiler for Xilinx (C to RTL)
Montavista Software	Montavista Linux
WindRiver	VxWorks RTOS, Tornado IDE, optimizing compilers, software debuggers