Efficient prototyping system based on incremental design and module-by-module verification

This paper presents an efficient hardware prototyping methodologies of digital systems. A is based on a low-cost and flexible prototyping system which consists of a general-purpose CPU and a FPGA-based custom board. Using our prototyping methodologies such as incremental system design and module-by-module verification, we can map partial system specification into hardware prototype, which is implemented by programming FPGAs on custom board. This allows flexible and efficient system verification as well as reduction in cost and time of prototype building