Designing a Multi-Processor Education Board for High-Performance Embedded Processing

Modern embedded markets call for high density computing ability, making it is difficult to use just one microprocessor to satisfy function requirements of high-performance embedded systems. Multiple processors, including embedded microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs) and FPGA hardware accelerators are often used in these embedded systems. However, as far as we know, only very few universities include multiple processor (multi-processor) techniques in embedded system design courses, which makes graduates hard to meet the social requirement. To overcome the contradiction between education and social requirement, a multi-processor education board is designed, aiming at training students' ability in the design of modern high-performance embedded systems which use several processors.