Paper Info
Title
Rapid-Prototyping of Embedded Systems via Reprogrammable Devices
Abstract
This paper describes a flexible board-level rapid-prototyping environment for embedded control applications. The environment is based on an APTIX board populated by Xilinx FPGA devices, a 68HC11 emulator, and APTIX programmable interconnect devices. Given a design consisting of logic and of software running on a micro-controller that implement a set of tasks, the prototype is obtained by programming the FPGA devices, the micro-controller emulator and the APTIX devices. This environment being based on programmable devices offers the flexibility to perform engineering changes, the performance needed to validate complex systems and the hardware setup for field tests. The key point in our approach is the use of results of our previous research on software and hardware synthesis as well as of some commercial tools to provide the designer with fast programming data from a high-level description of the algorithms to be implemented. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach by showing a close-to real-life example from the automotive world.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1023/A:1008890323570
Thessaloniki
Keywords
Field
DocType
embedded systems,rapid prototyping,hardware/software co-design,field-programmable inter-connect,software synthesis,automotive electronics
Logic synthesis,Rapid prototyping,Computer architecture,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Software prototyping,Software,Logic programming,Application software,Embedded system,Programmable logic device
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
2-3
1572-8080
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-7603-5
5
1.36
References 
Authors
13
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefano Cardelli151.36
Massimiliano Chiodo212921.95
Paolo Giusto319825.44
Attila Jurecska411218.45
Luciano Lavagno51752216.46
Claudio Sansoè66415.86
Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli7113851881.40