Design tools for reconfigurable embedded systems

Author

Almeida, Manuel ; Sklyarov, Valery ; Skliarova, Iouliia ; Pimentel, Bruno

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Aviero Univ., Portugal

fYear

2005

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2005

Abstract

This paper describes the developed hardware/software tools, libraries and design methods for FPGA-based embedded systems which include: a kernel prototyping board with the Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA; a set of projects for reusable FPGA-based circuits; utilities for FPGA programming; software/hardware tools that provide support for reconfiguration; and programs enabling the designers to partition the functionality of the developed system between software, running on a PC computer, and hardware, implemented in FPGA. A special attention has been paid to data exchange between a host computer and the kernel prototyping board based on compression/decompression techniques. Examples of practical applications are also presented.

Keywords

embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; hardware-software codesign; logic CAD; reconfigurable architectures; FPGA programming; FPGA-based embedded system; Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA; compression technique; data exchange; decompression technique; hardware tool; kernel prototyping; reconfigurable embedded system; reusable FPGA-based circuit; software tool; Design methodology; Embedded software; Embedded system; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Kernel; Software libraries; Software prototyping; Software reusability; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded Software and Systems, 2005. Second International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2512-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICESS.2005.47

Filename

1609884