FPGA-Based Embedded System Education

Shi, Qingsong; Xiang, Lingxiang; Chen, Tianzhou; Hu, Wei

doi:10.1109/etcs.2009.37

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“…Unfortunately, the course details are often hidden from public. Other FPGA course examples include a comprehensive course that covers embedded systems and processors, HDL, realtime OS, and GUI programming with VGA [8]. Closest to our approach are the two project courses which are based on a generic multiprocessor FPGA platform: one concentrates in real-time embedded SW and the other more HW-oriented dealing with integration of an accelerator unit [9].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Experiences from System-on-Chip design courses

Matilainen

Salminen

Hämäläinen

2014

10th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME)

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This paper presents our experiences in teaching System-on-Chip design at Tampere University of Technology. We concentrate on teaching practices and the exercise work which teaches intellectual property (IP) reuse, platform-based design, and HW/SW co-design. Students implement a video encoder on FPGA. It has proved good that teachers split the large exercise into mandatory weekly tasks and bonus points are awarded for good work. Automated testbenches and startup examples were very useful. Students consider the course motivating, even if they underestimate the required time and effort. In the future, more effort is needed in finalizing the reusable IP blocks and whole project works for easier reuse as well as setting up a common repository.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hardware Platform is a family of architectures which satisfy a set of constraints to allow the reuse of hardware and software components, whereas SW platform refers to operating system and drivers, µC/OS-II in our case. Reuse and HW/SW are the second most important ones (8) followed by verification (6). Our course follows this emphasis.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences from System-on-Chip design courses

Matilainen

Salminen

Hämäläinen

2014

10th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME)

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“…Practical experience, with relevance to industry, forms an important part of many Embedded Systems curricula [3,4,9,17]. Our laboratory provides the students with an environment in which they can put theory into practice using the same tools and prototyping methods that can be found in industry [18].…”

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Embedded computer architecture laboratory

Nelson

Molnos

Nejad

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Education

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Embedded systems are complex, requiring multi-disciplinary skills for their design. Developing appropriate educational curricula is a non trivial problem. Embedded system design requires both theoretical and practical understanding. It is common in embedded system education to provide practical laboratory sessions to put into practice what is learnt from lectures and textbooks.In this paper, we present our embedded systems laboratory that is given as part of the Embedded Computer Architecture (ECA) module at Delft University of Technology. Our laboratory provides practical, hands-on experience of programming a multiprocessor embedded system, that is prototyped on an FPGA. We provide details of the hardware platform and software APIs that are provided to the students, along with the laboratory assignment that was given to the ECA students in the 2011-2012 academic year. We present example results that were submitted by groups taking part in the laboratory, and describe the lessons we learned from our own practical experience of giving the laboratory.

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“…Due to the invention of hardware description languages like VHDL and Verilog and programmable logic devices like CPLDs, FPGAs and SOCs, since a pair of decades the learning focused on the design has been highly facilitated [2]. Different processor designs have been developed mainly with academic purposes, for teaching digital circuits [3][4][5][6], computer architecture [7][8][9][10] and embedded systems [11][12][13][14]. Most of these designs has been described using VHDL language [15][16][17], Verilog language [6,18], or even both.…”

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Hardware description of a simplified 4-bit softcore processor with BCD capabilities

Santa¹,

Jacinto²,

Montie³

2020

IJECE

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The objective of the work reported in this paper is to improve a 4-bit softcore processor previously designed in Verilog language, keeping its compact size. This processor was thought to be used as academic and didactic tool for teaching as computers architecture subject as digital circuits subject in the technology faculty of the Universidad Distrital. The new features include arithmetic instruction with input carry, BCD operations enabling, rotating instructions, implementation of input and output register banks, increase of the number of general purpose registers of the data memory, and the reduction of the execution clock cycles per instruction. Additionally, the assembler software was enabled to support macro-instructions to make easy the comprehension of some composed functions. As result, a very compact softcore processor was obtained, by means of a Verilog description done in a single file. This implementation occupies only the 2% of the medium-size FPGA used for the application, reaching a maximum possible working clock frequency of 929 Mhz.

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FPGA-Based Embedded System Education

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

Experiences from System-on-Chip design courses

Experiences from System-on-Chip design courses

Embedded computer architecture laboratory

Hardware description of a simplified 4-bit softcore processor with BCD capabilities

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