Introduction to soc embedded design suite, Overview, Introduction to soc embedded design suite -1 – Altera SoC Embedded Design Suite User Manual
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Introduction to SoC Embedded Design Suite
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The Altera
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system on a chip (SoC) Embedded Design Suite (EDS) provides the tools needed to develop
embedded software for Altera's SoC devices.
The Altera SoC EDS is a comprehensive tool suite for embedded software development on Altera SoC
devices. The Altera SoC EDS contains development tools, utility programs, run-time software, and
application examples that enable firmware and application software development on the Altera SoC
hardware platform.
Overview
The Altera SoC EDS enables you to perform all required software development tasks targeting the Altera
SoCs, including:
• Board bring-up
• Device driver development
• Operating system (OS) porting
• Bare-metal application development and debugging
• OS- and Linux-based application development and debugging
• Debug systems running symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
• Debug software targeting soft IP residing on the FPGA portion of the device
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