Title :
LOGSYS: A simple tool for complex student projects
Author :
Fehér, Béla ; Raikovich, Tamás ; Dancsi, György ; Laczko, Péter
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Meas. & Inf. Syst., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest, Hungary
Abstract :
The LOGSYS Development Environment is used as a versatile tool in different levels of the education of the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Embedded System courses. The motivation at the introduction was to provide an affordable platform to every student, which offers compatibility with the existing industry standard solutions, while can support practical design work from the basic examples, through simple systems, up to the modern model based methodologies. The main components of the solution include the FPGA board, the development cable and the user application. The USB powered compact board makes possible its usage during class work, allowing direct experience on the presented topics. The LOGSYS tool set is compatible with the major Xilinx software components, like ISE, EDK, ChipScope, and offers the usability of MATLAB Simulink/System Generator and LabVIEW FPGA Module. These two later model based methodologies are very useful in case of the DSP and control type applications.
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; FPGA board; LOGSYS development environment; USB powered compact board; Xilinx software components; complex student projects; embedded system courses; industry standard solutions; Application software; Digital signal processing chips; Embedded system; Field programmable gate arrays; MATLAB; Mathematical model; Power system modeling; Software tools; Universal Serial Bus; Usability;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronic Systems Education, 2009. MSE '09. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4407-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4406-9
DOI :
10.1109/MSE.2009.5270835