Teaching HW/SW codesign with a Zynq ARM/FPGA SoC

Josep Balasch; Arthur Beckers; Dusan Bozilov; Sujoy Sinha Roy; Furkan Turan; Ingrid Verbauwhede

doi:10.1109/EWME.2018.8629481

Teaching HW/SW codesign with a Zynq ARM/FPGA SoC

Josep Balasch, Arthur Beckers, Dusan Bozilov, Sujoy Sinha Roy, Furkan Turan, Ingrid Verbauwhede

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In this paper we describe a lab session-based hardware/software (HW/SW) codesign course for implementing embedded systems. The goals of the course are to teach the fundamental concepts of embedded system design, develop hands-on HW/SW codesign skills, and to show that there are many possible ways to explore the design space. The reason behind choosing HW/SW codesign approach is that it brings the best of the two worlds: the flexibility of SW and the power/energy/computation efficiency of HW. As an example project, students codesign the well-known RSA public-key cryptosystem in the Xilinx Zybo boards that contain a Xilinx 7-series FPGA coupled with an embedded ARM processing unit. Students are required to explore the design space, weigh the various alternatives and take design decisions. Besides, the project cultivates non-technical skills such as team building and management, sharing of work-load, decision making, presentation and technical report writing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME 2018)
Editors	Jan Haase
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society Press
Pages	63-66
ISBN (Print)	97815386911443
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EWME.2018.8629481
Publication status	Published - 24 Sept 2018
Event	2018 12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME) - Braunschweig, Germany Duration: 24 Sept 2018 → 26 Sept 2018

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Conference	2018 12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME)
Period	24/09/18 → 26/09/18

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Balasch, J, Beckers, A, Bozilov, D, Sinha Roy, S, Turan, F & Verbauwhede, I 2018, Teaching HW/SW codesign with a Zynq ARM/FPGA SoC. in J Haase (ed.), 2018 12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME 2018). IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 63-66, 2018 12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME), 24/09/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/EWME.2018.8629481

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