HADES-1: A rapid prototyping environment based on advanced FPGA’s

Abstract

Rapid prototyping of large digital systems is becoming supported with the use of new advanced FPGA's. These FPGA's can give more Information than functional simulation and emulation tasks, due to their inner inspection features. This paper presents HADES-l, a new environment for rapid prototyping and hardware debugging. HADES-l is based on one FPGA of the VIRTEX family, exploiting the advanced features of the SelectMap port and a fast link with the host PC.