Experimental Teaching with UP3 Boards for SOPC-based Embedded Systems

The system-on-a-programmable-chip(SOPC) using FPGA is increasingly used for implementing an embedded system.Build-up and hardware/software co-design flows for Nios Ⅱ softcore processor-based SOPC embedded systems are briefly introduced in this paper,and a design example is given.Furthermore,a scheme for experimental teaching of SOPC embedded system,including course basic experiments,course designs and student training projects,is discussed that takes Altera UP3 boards as experimental hardware platforms and puts emphasis on students' experiences in the approach to the SOPC.