Comparison of different development kits and its suitability in signal processing education

With the availability of many low-cost programmable development kits in the market, real-time signal processing projects can now be readily introduced into today's signal processing and embedded system course curriculum. In this paper, we group these popular development kits in terms of their cost, hardware architecture, development methodology and software resource. We further illustrate the programming efforts in implementing a real-time digital signal processing algorithm using different types of programmable development kits.