Advanced Digital Systems

Overview

The Advanced Digital Systems laboratory introduces concepts like Systems-on-Chip (SoC), offloading engines, peripheral controllers and embedded software. Students will learn to use Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) and the Software Development Kit (SDK) to create processing systems based on Microblaze and the Digilent Nexys 2 development board, which utilizes a Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA.

Tutorials

The following tutorials demonstrate the use of XPS and SDK in creating hardware platforms for Xilinx FPGAs and developing software for these platforms.

1. Xilinx Platform Studio
2. Software Development Kit

Projects

1. PLB External ALU

Grading

All students will need to complete the first project. Afterwards, each student will be assigned one of the remaining projects. The progress made on the assigned project will be used to grade the student.