Sunday, February 11, 2007

Game Starts!

During my master study and thesis project, it's getting clear to me that FPGA can achieve a few magnitudes higher performance if smart designed while keep flexibility at the same time. A good approach is soft multiprocessor on FPGA.

My master project is in that direction. It's to implement a four-processor system on FPGA to compress a BMP image on CF card and write it back afterwards. During the project, I realized that there is a large potential for such a system and my design is far away from the optimized.

Fortunately, my professor in TU/e, Eindhoven kindly lend an FPGA board to me. Now I can continue to play with it. Let's start!