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The paper proposes a number of requirements for an ideal platform for codesign research. Riley-2, a new platform developed at Imperial College, is shown to meet these requirements. It is a PCI based board consisting mainly of four dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs and an embedded processor. A VHDL model of the Riley-2 system, including all major components except the PCI interface, has been produced. Two design routes, one based on VHDL with parametrised hardware libraries and the other based on a codesign language called Cedar, have been developed for Riley-2. Finally, an image processing application running on a PC with the Riley-2 and a Quickcam camera, is described.
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Mackinlay, P.I., Cheung, P.Y.K., Luk, W., Sandiford, R. (1997). Riley-2: A flexible platform for codesign and dynamic reconfigurable computing research. In: Luk, W., Cheung, P.Y.K., Glesner, M. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic and Applications. FPL 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1304. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63465-7_214
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