Teaching hardware/software codesign on a reconfigurable computing platform

Authors:
Markus Weinhardt
Affiliations:
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany
Venue:
ARC'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Reconfigurable Computing: architectures, tools and applications
Year:
2012

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Abstract

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.