Embedded Co-Design VHDL and C

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Embedded Co-DesignVHDL and C

• Introduction to course

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Course Tutors

• Craig Duffy
• Craig.duffy_at_uwe.ac.uk
• 2Q20a ext 83816
• Nigel Gunton (Module Leader)?
• nigel.gunton_at_uwe.ac.uk
• 2N36 ext 83167

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The hardware

• We are using the Technologic Systems TS-7300
  board
• This has an 200 MHz Cirrus ARM9 CPU
• An Altera Cyclone II FPGA
• It runs Linux 2.4.26 kernel it uses a Debian
  distribution file system
• 2 SD card slots, 2 Ethernet ports, USB, VGA
  graphics, 10 serial ports

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Craig's part

• I will teach 2 6 week blocks
• I will cover the Linux, ARM and C side of the
  course
• The first part will cover the TS-7300 boards and
  Linux. We will cover
• Toolchains
• Upgrading kernels 2.4 series
• Porting to 2.6
• Kernel modules.

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Resources

• The Technologic Systems' Web site has lots of
  resources
• www.embeddedarm.com
• There is a very lively Yahoo mail group
• My home page has some resources
• kenny.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cduffy/ts7300
• There are lots of sites and resources for ARM,
  Linux, Debian as well.