Use of a Soft-Core Processor in a Hardware/Software Codesign Laboratory

Authors:
Roger Chamberlain;John Lockwood;Saurabh Gayen;Richard Hough;Phillip Jones
Affiliations:
Washington University in St. Louis;Washington University in St. Louis;Washington University in St. Louis;Washington University in St. Louis;Washington University in St. Louis
Venue:
MSE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper describes our experience to date and current plans for a senior-level microelectronics laboratory course on hardware/software codesign. The course utilizes an open-source, soft-core processor deployed on the FPX platform as an integral component of the studentsý designs. Students write software to execute on a Leon SPARC-compatible processor and write VHDL to implement hardware-accelerated computational functions in FPGA hardware.