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Integrating hardware and software concepts in a microprocessor-based system design lab
Steven K. Reinhardt
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This semi-custom target platform combines a highly integrated 32-bit embedded Motorola PowerPC processor and two high-density Xilinx FPGAs, allowing plenty of headroom for follow-on student projects and future course expansion.Abstract:
The EECS 373 "Design of Microprocessor-based Systems" course at the University of Michigan ties hardware and software together by providing a modern platform on which students simultaneously develop both hardware and software components of simple systems. Our semi-custom target platform combines a highly integrated 32-bit embedded Motorola PowerPC processor and two high-density Xilinx FPGAs, allowing plenty of headroom for follow-on student projects and future course expansion. Versions of the development tools we employ in the lab are also available, with simulation capabilities, on public workstations and students' personal PCs, enabling students to work outside the lab and maximizing the leverage of finite lab space in the face of growing enrollments.read more
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