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Teaching Hardware/Software Codesign on a Reconfigurable Computing Platform

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Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications (ARC 2012)

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This paper reports on a practically oriented undergraduate course in Hardware/Software Codesign which uses an FPGA-based reconfigurable computing platform with a soft processor for analyzing and evaluating hardware/software trade-offs. The Altium Designer design flow was chosen for the practical lab exercises because it smoothly integrates HDL-based FPGA design with Embedded Programming. Furthermore, a “C to hardware” compiler allows to quickly migrate functionality from software to hardware. A complete hardware/software system was emulated on the Altium NanoBoard 3000XN. The board was also used for group projects ranging from image processing to digital audio and video processing.

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  1. Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany

    Markus Weinhardt

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

    Oliver C. S. Choy

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China

    Ray C. C. Cheung

  3. Department of ECE, Virginia Tech., 302 Whittemore Hall, 24061, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Peter Athanas

  4. Tohoku University, 6-6-01 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aobaku, 981-8579, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Kentaro Sano

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Weinhardt, M. (2012). Teaching Hardware/Software Codesign on a Reconfigurable Computing Platform. In: Choy, O.C.S., Cheung, R.C.C., Athanas, P., Sano, K. (eds) Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications. ARC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7199. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28365-9_22

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