Title :
GATOS: a windowing operating system for FPGAs
Author :
Bailey, D.G. ; Gribbon, K.T. ; Johnston, C.T.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. Sci. & Technol. Massey Univ., Palmerston North, New Zealand
Abstract :
FPGAs are increasingly being used to implement low-level vision operations in stand-alone configurations. For real-time image processing applications there is a need for several interactive operating system functions such as tuning, calibration, user interaction, and debugging which are difficult to perform when not under the control of a host operating system. This paper proposes the gate array terminal operating system (GATOS) which provides a set of high-level IP blocks that implement the graphical user interface of an interactive windowing operating system. The requirements and desired levels of functionality for GATOS are discussed and the preliminary design is presented.
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; graphical user interfaces; operating systems (computers); FPGA; GATOS; gate array terminal operating system; graphical user interface; high level IP blocks; interactive windowing operating system; Calibration; Control systems; Debugging; Driver circuits; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Image processing; Keyboards; Operating systems; Parallel processing;
Conference_Titel :
Electronic Design, Test and Applications, 2006. DELTA 2006. Third IEEE International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2500-8
DOI :
10.1109/DELTA.2006.51