An FPGA-Based Experiment Platform for Multi-Core System

Author

Xing, Jianguo ; Zhao, Wenmin ; Hu, Hua

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Zhejiang Gongshang Univ., Hangzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

18-21 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

2567

Lastpage

2571

Abstract

The undergoing radical change of microprocessor architecture, from single-core design to multi-core design on a chip, has posed great challenge to computer system education. In this paper, we introduce an educational experiment platform for multi-core system design with commercial off-the-shelf FPGA chips and free open IP cores. From this simple platform, student can learn some common design patterns and techniques in multi-core system which can be a good start for real application design.

Keywords

computer science education; field programmable gate arrays; logic design; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; student experiments; FPGA-based experiment platform; computer system education; free open IP core; microprocessor architecture; multicore system design; Computer architecture; Computer science; Computer science education; Electronic design automation and methodology; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Master-slave; Microprocessors; Redundancy; Software design; FPGA; experiment platform; multi-core system design; parallel computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Young Computer Scientists, 2008. ICYCS 2008. The 9th International Conference for

Conference_Location

Hunan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3398-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3398-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICYCS.2008.364

Filename

4709381