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Recommended Citation: Edwards, V, M Courtney, and K p Yang. A FPGA Paint Brush Application. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2008, v 25 (Phoenix): §3722. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 7(36). ISSN: 1545-679X.)

Recipient of Meritorious Student Faculty Paper Award

A FPGA Paint Brush Application

Refereed

7 pages

Vince Edwards    [a1] [a2]
Southeastern Louisiana University    [u1] [u2]
Hammond, Louisiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Michael Courtney    [a1] [a2]
Southeastern Louisiana University    [u1] [u2]
Hammond, Louisiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Kuo-pao Yang    [a1] [a2]
Southeastern Louisiana University    [u1] [u2]
Hammond, Louisiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

This paper describes a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) paint program similar to the one found on the Windows operating system. This paint brush application uses a modern educational kit that has recently been available for Computer Science hardware courses. The educational package employs state-of-the-art technology in both hardware and software. This new technology is currently being used in many universities and many electronic commercial products. With an integrated design environment and its reconfigurable capabilities on the board where hardware can be changed on the fly, we implement the system-on-chip application and immediately see execution results. Further development of this program can lead to a more complex and sophisticated application.

Keywords: Hardware/software co-design, Embedded computing education, FPGA-based design, System-on-chip

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