MLE Rapid Development System

 

Overview and Technology

 

Missing Link Electronics (MLE) provides a proven Configurable System solution where hardware and software can be configured to match the customer's application.

Their integrated and pre-validated platform comprises applications processors uniquely integrated with FPGA-based systems, running a Linux or Android software stack. Design tools&  services allow the user to optimize hardware and software towards cost and performance requirements.

The platform is available as a Rapid Prototyping system or as a development platform license.

More information about their products and solutions can be found at http://MLEcorp.com

 

 

 

Additional Information

 

The Missing Link Electronics 1000 series rapid prototyping system (RPS) gives you an early copy of the target hardware running your target software. This facilitates architectural exploration at the electronic system level and enables concurrent design and live testing of hardware, software and diagnostic functions. It also reduces risk and test time during system integration. The RPS is a complete development system comprising flexible “soft” hardware and stable off-the-shelf software components.

At the hardware level, field programmable gate-array (FPGA) technology with one or more embedded CPUs is coupled with a wide array of connectivity channels. This ensures sufficient parallel signal processing power and a high degree of flexibility to connect other system components through Ethernet, USB, Bluetooth, WiFi, Controller Area Network (CAN), general purpose I/O channels (GPIO) and more. The embedded CPUs connect to DDR RAM, flash memory and peripheral hardware blocks allowing effective emulation of broad ranges of micro-controllers.

At the software level, you can pick from different operating systems such as OSEK-OS, AUTOSAR-OS, or Linux. Or we support you in porting your operating system. The RPS for Linux comprises a full Linux kernel – with or without real-time extensions such as Xenomai - and MLE customized device drivers that provide application level control of the provided connectivity channels out-of-the-box. It includes many ready-to-run software packages: different file systems, TCP/IP networking, X11, window managers, multimedia components and ftp/http/SSL web services. Many more off-the-shelf applications can easily be added via standard 3rd party SW development flows or the MLE Linux package builder tool. This allows you to focus on building your software application, fast.

Instead of putting an FPGA into your workstation you literally can have a Linux workstation inside your FPGA!