A Rapid Prototyping Environment for Microprocessor Based System-on-Chips and Its Application to the Development of a Network Processor

  • Authors:
  • André Brinkmann;Dominik Langen;Ulrich Rückert

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FPL '00 Proceedings of the The Roadmap to Reconfigurable Computing, 10th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The rapid advances in microelectronic circuit design have dramatically increased the design complexity of modern integrated devices. One approach to fit the time-to-market requirements is the use of rapid prototyping environments. In this paper we introduce a new FPGA based prototyping environment, on which a full functional embedded system can be implemented. The main distinction to other environments is the incorporation of a synthesizable and configurable microprocessor core into the design space. Furthermore we present the application of this environment to the development of a network processor which consists of a processor core and an Ethernet controller.