Reconfigurable platform for embedded systems teaching

The paper presents the possibility to emulate different known microcontrollers on the same FPGA development board that will help students to learn different microprocessor based systems in a comparative approach. An RTL implementation of AVR Microprocessor instruction set architecture was added in Xilinx EDK Development Kit in order to be integrated with existing Xilinx IP Cores. In this manner different microprocessor cores (ATxMEGA, PIC, ARM) may be used with a large set of IP Cores in order to design complex systems on chip.