Tilera Corp. released version 2.0 of its Eclipse- and Linux-based Multicore Development Environment (MDE) supporting its massively multi-core MIPS/ RISC system-on-chips (SoCs).
MDE 2.0 offers support for both its Tile64- and newer TilePro-family processors, for development of scalable, multi-threaded, shared-memory applications, says the company.
With version 2.0, Tilera has updated MDE's SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) Linux implementation for the TilePro family, and has likewise optimized compilers and other development tools, says the company. New MDE features includes a Bare Metal Environment (BME) run-time environment in addition to its pre-existing full SMP Linux implementation. Version 2.0 also provides a new Zero Overhead Linux (ZOL) that is said to "combine the best of both worlds" of the SMP and BME environments, as well as a new hybrid mode that lets developers mix and match two or three of these run-times on a single SoC. Using MDE 2.0 with a TilePro SoC, developers can "linearly scale their Linux and real-time dataplane applications to unprecedented performance," claims Tilera.
