Toward the design of a low cost reconfigurable real time augmented reality system

In this paper, we detail different step to partially design a low cost reconfigurable real time 3D graphic processor based on the soft core NIOS II CPU. Two major steps are presented in this paper. The first one is the design of a RTOS based on μClinux as OS and Xenomai as real time kernel. We also present already done steps to design a 3D graphic processor. The presented step is the analysis of the 3D graphic application to choose the most complex function for a hardware implementation.