Hardware and software design of systems on chip using Xilinx EDK technology
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This article summarizes obtaining the first System on Chip (SoC) designed, developed, and emulated at the Army Polytechnic School (ESPE) and in Ecuador. It will be demonstrated that by combining the advantages of the design on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) using the reuse of IP Cores and platforms, together with the use of Xilinx EDK development technology, both the hardware and the software of a chip can be designed in a way quickly and economically reliable. In addition, the use of the Platform Based Design (PBD) methodology and the concept of hardware and software co-design to design a chip's hardware, operating system, and application layers are detailed. The hardware layer contains a series of IP Cores governed by a MicroBlaze processor working within IBM's CoreConnect architecture. At the same time, the operating system layer comprises drivers, libraries, and the Xilkernel Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). Finally, the application layer can control a plant's temperature by selecting two control techniques: ON-OFF or PID. It should be noted that the co-design was developed considering an adequate conceptual, architectural, and methodological approach.
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