The Egret platform for reconfigurable system on chip

Author

Bergmann, Neil W. ; Williams, John

Author_Institution

Sch. of ITEE, Queensland Univ., Brisbane, Qld., Australia

fYear

2003

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

340

Lastpage

343

Abstract

Embedded systems are an appealing application domain for reconfigurable System-on-Chip (rSoC) technology. However, rSoC design is inherently a complex task with enormous freedom in design parameters such as processor, operating system, and backplane buses. Design efficiency can potentially be improved by the use of an rSoC platform which constrains these choices, and allows new designs to leverage much of the expertise of previous designs. This paper explains and justifies he design decisions for the first version of Egret, which is an rSoC prototyping platform being developed at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Keywords

embedded systems; operating systems (computers); reconfigurable architectures; system buses; system-on-chip; systems analysis; Egret platform; RSOC design; RSOC prototyping platform; backplane buses; embedded systems; operating system; processor; reconfigurable system on chip technology; Australia; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Embedded computing; Embedded system; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Pervasive computing; Standards development; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8320-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPT.2003.1275772

Filename

1275772