Publ. pedagógica LEONARDO RP:

Sumário:

Decreasing time-to-market by shortening the design and development cycle of electronic products is one of the main goals in today's electronics industry. The development cycle calls for rapid implementation and prototype validation, so as to maximise the window of opportunity of a product. Rapid prototyping is nowadays an important technology for this purpose, allowing quick implementation and accurate emulation of the final product. An overview of this area is presented in this module.

Índice:

1 - INTRODUCTION

2 - RAPID PROTOTYPING (RP) STATE OF THE TECHNOLOGY REPORT

The RP state of the technology report structure
Sources of information
    Books 
    Magazines and journals 
    Internet sites (WWW) 
    Internet newsgroups 
    Subscription / mailing lists 
    Courses available 
    Promotional material 
    Papers and tutorials
    Relevant standards
    Commercial products
    Shareware / freeware products
    Consortia / associations
    Commercial companies
    Centres of excellence
    On-going projects
    Conferences and workshops
    Who is who
    Future trends

3 - THE EVOLUTION OF RAPID PROTOTYPING

From PROMs to PALs
Simple and complex programmable logic devices
Field programmable gate arrays
CPLDs versus FPGAs
Programmable logic design tools
Digital systems prototyping

4 - HANDS-ON PROJECT

Project specification
AHDL brief presentation
Project implementation

5 - CONCLUSION