MP3 Portable Player System-Level Glue Logic on FPGA

Microelectronics systems design is a collaborative, multidisciplinary activity, involving the combined efforts of system architects, circuit designers, device engineers, software developers, and process engineers. There is a need for educational programs in microelectronics particularly at undergraduate level that prepare engineers for the semiconductor industry. This paper is an out-come from postgraduate course project, focusing on the design of MP3 system-level glue logic required to interface and manage the memory and I/O devices. The design has been implemented and verified on a Spartan-II xc2s50 2.5 V FPGA.