Rapid Prototyping for Embedded System Applications Via High Level Development Tools

该项目正在开发一种新的独特的教科书补充，使本科生能够设计，验证和合成复杂的数字设计与硬件描述语言（HDL）的最小知识。 本教材增刊附有交互式MATLAB软件，重点介绍如何使用Xilinx的高级PCMATLAB/Simulink兼容工具XSG 6.2进行现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）设计的快速原型制作。Xilinx的Spartan III 90 nm FPGA技术作为主要的合成平台。教科书补充目标的应用和算法在信号处理，通信，控制，低功耗电子，机器人和生物传感器。虽然使用最小的数学（例如描述性图片）来解释算法，但重点放在替代算法实现，特定于应用程序的问题和权衡上。正在开发便于检查替代实现的MATLAB GUI。特别核心的例子，在上述每一个领域，进行整个补充，以激励，发展，并说明所有的概念。全面的例子来说明如何概念可以放在一起，合成复杂的系统（如医学图像增强，无线电接收器，CVD炉/机器人控制，生物传感器线性化）被包括在内。这些例子，选择反映尖端的应用，代表另一个核心的教学贡献。 该团队正在与一位工程教育评估专家合作，对材料进行评估，几所主要大学的教师正在对材料提供反馈。 传播计划包括期刊和会议论文，一家主流出版商表示有兴趣将完成的材料出版为平装书。

This project is developing a new unique textbook supplement that will enable undergraduate students to design, validate, and synthesize complex digital designs with minimal knowledge of Hardware Description Languages (HDL). The textbook supplement, with accompanying interactive MATLAB software, focuses on the use of Xilinx' high-level, PCMATLAB/Simulink compatible XSG 6.2 tool for rapid prototyping of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) designs. Xilinx's Spartan III 90 nm FPGA technology serves as the main synthesis platform. The textbook supplement targets applications and algorithms in signal processing, communications, controls, low power electronics, robotics, and biosensors. While algorithms are explained using minimal mathematics (e.g. descriptive pictures), focus is placed on alternative algorithm implementations, application-specific issues, and tradeoffs. MATLAB GUIs that facilitate the examination of alternative implementations are being developed. Special core examples, in each of the above areas, are carried throughout the supplement to motivate, develop, and illustrate all concepts. Comprehensive examples to illustrate how concepts can be brought together to synthesize complex systems (e.g. medical image enhancement, radio receiver, CVD furnace/robot control, biosensor linearization) are being included. These examples, selected to reflect cutting-edge applications, represent another central pedagogical contribution. The team is working with an engineering education assessment specialist to evaluate the material and faculty at several major universities are providing feedback on the material. Dissemination plans include journal and conference papers and a mainstream publisher has expressed interest in publishing the completed material as a paperback book.