Cosmic Power Architecture® Cross Development Tools

Cosmic's toolchain for the Power Architecture family is part of a complete and uniform product line incorporating over 20 years of innovative design and development. All Cosmic products include one year of technical support and updates.

• Power Architecture e200z0, Z1, Z3 and Z6 Cores
  Compiler supports all standard Power Architecture and VLE instructions including hardware floating point instruction in standard mode.
• VLE Support
  In addition to standard Power Architecture support, the Cosmic compiler has been designed with a VLE only model to produce very efficient Variable Length Encoding (VLE) code for the NXP MPC56xx and STMicroelectronics SPC56xx families.
• ANSI and ISO C Compiler
  The Cosmic Power Architecture compiler follows ANSI and ISO rules and conventions. All code and libraries are optimized specifically for the Power Architecture processor core. All Power Architecture derivatives and sub-families are supported.
• Reentrant and Recursive
  With all programming models all code is fully reentrant and recursive using standard ANSI stack frame conventions.
• Memory Models
  CXPPC supports different programming model options to fine tune code optimizations to your application and memory requirements.
• C Support for Short Data and Constants
  Compiler source extensions provide efficient use for frequently used data and constants.
• In-line Assembly
  The compiler provides three convenient methods for adding assembly code inside a C program. Includes an argument passing mechanism.
• Absolute Listings
  Optionally produce relocatable and/or absolute C interspersed with the corresponding Assembly listings.
• IEEE-754 Floating Point
  Supports IEEE single and double precision floating point formats with full ANSI libraries (Source code included, royalty free).
• Moveable Code Feature
  Moveable code feature is designed to make RAM based code like boot loaders and programmers easy to create and maintain. The Linker automatically creates a segment in ROM to store moveable code. Then at run time, use the supplied library function to relocate and copy the moveable code into RAM for execution.
• Check Sum Feature
  Easy to use check sum facility and library (Source included) allow users to quickly implement an efficient check sum on any or all sections. Check sum calculation and insertion is transparently managed by the linker.
• Mixed C and Assembly
  Cosmic tools support mixed C and Assembly applications. Including Assembler support for C #defines and #includes so C and assembly language modules may share common constants and macros.
• Host Independent Formats
  The Cosmic relocatable and absolute object formats are host independent. This allows user's on PC, SUN and HP to share objects for linking and debugging.
• ELF/DWARF Debug Support
  The Cosmic compiler suite supports the ELF DWARF standard debug format used by many popular emulators and logic analyzers.
• In-Circuit Emulator Compatibility
  CXPPC is compatible with all existing emulators.
• Flexible Compiler Interface
  Cosmic compilers are designed to be powerful and flexible so they can be used with virtually any environment. Use Cosmic's own IDEA interface or use your favorite editor, make utility and/or source code control system.