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TITLE: Programmable System-on-Chip Student Projects
Both Altera and Xilinx offer programmable system-on-chip (PSOC)
solutions that are suitable for prototyping projects of 200,000
or more gates. The devices include hard or soft CPU cores along
with traditional FPGA circuitry. Teams of students at Georgia
Tech have used these for a variety of senior-level projects. One
project mounted an Altera NIOS PSOC board and a color camera on
an off-the-shelf radio-controlled vehicle. The vehicle was able
to follow colored signs in a hallway by activating PWM servos to
control its direction and speed. Another project mounted the
PSOC on top of a robot which had eight sonar sensors, an audio
system with pre-recorded sounds and two drive motors with
positional feedback. In both of these examples, co-design of the
software was performed using the C language while the hardware
was implemented using VHDL.
For additional information about the projects, access:
GEORGIA TECH
For additional information about PSOC devices, access:
Altera PSOC
Xilinx PSOC
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PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEM-ON-CHIP STUDENT PROJECTS
BOUNDARY-SCAN LIBRARY CELLS
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DATE: March 2003
TITLE: Programmable System-on-Chip Student Projects
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