A remote controlled embedded system implemented in FPGA

Abstract

Since the Embedded system and SOC technology is increasingly developing and widely applied in industry, the education in this field is considered as an important part for the students in Electronic Engineering. Therefore, a basic but complete embedded system for demonstration is required to implement. In practice, the Altera DE2 board is adopted to construct an embedded system which consists of CPU (soft core “Nios”), ALU, memory chip and USB port. At the same time, a remote terminal in PC is created to control the system depending on the USB channel connecting two sides. In the project, the procedure for building a platform based embedded system is presented as well as the USB application in Windows environment.