Title :
Rapid prototyping environment for design of hardware/software electronic systems
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ecole Nat. d´´Ingenieurs de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
Abstract :
This paper presents a prototyping environment for evaluation of hardware/software systems in their real world environment. This environment is used as a hardware/software platform for developing and testing systems without having to wait for fabrication of the system. The high-level description of the system is fast compiled into an arrangement of programmable and configurable platforms. This platform is based on a microprocessor-based architecture for software part and a configurable FPGAs based board for hardware part. This paper also treats an application of rapid prototyping for design of robot arm controller
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; field programmable gate arrays; hardware-software codesign; rapid prototyping (industrial); software prototyping; configurable FPGAs; configurable platform; hardware/software electronic systems; high-level description; microprocessor-based architecture; rapid prototyping environment; real world environment; robot arm controller; Application software; Computer architecture; Fabrication; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Software systems; Software testing; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisboa
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5008-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.1998.813378
