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Impulse C™ is a function library that simplifies the development of highly parallel algorithms and programs for Altera® FPGAs and other programmable platforms. Complete with a compiler and debug tools, Impulse C is compatible with standard ANSI C. Impulse C allows embedded systems designers and software programmers to take advantage of programmable and reconfigurable hardware for application acceleration. The Impulse C tools include hardware/software co-simulation tools as well as proprietary C-to-RTL scheduling/optimizing technology used to map application elements to hardware via standard HDL synthesis tools. Impulse C tools operate within standard embedded programming environments including Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Visual Studio and GCC. They are easily adaptable to other standard C/C++ or EDA development environments.