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Dave '''DAVE Embedded Systems''' provides all the customization required (in particular at bootloader and Linux kernel levels) to enable customers use the standard Zynq-7000 development tools for building all the firmware/software components that will run on the target system.
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* building Linux applications that will run on the target
At the time of this writing (October 2013) Xilinx is migrating from mature ISE 14.x Design Suite - that should be the last series of this suite - to the new Vivado environment. Both are composed by several programs and some of these are in common. From the general standpoint, the main difference between ISE and Vivado - even if ISE does support Zynq - is the the latter has been expressively conceived to support newer SOC architectures such as Zynq, besides traditional FPGAs. Thus, adopting Vivado as the default environment for BELK would seem the natural choice. However, the migration process mentioned above has just begun and the majority of application notes and reference designs released by Xilinx still refers to ISE suite. Plus Vivado is still a little bit "green" and several bug fixes and improvements are introduced by every new release.
Since Bora was presented in 2013 and because this product addresses long longevity markets such as industrial and biomedical, '''DAVE Embedded Systems''' chose to build BELK upon Vivado that undoubtedly represents today the future of Xilinx development environments.
===Structure of BELK reference designs===