LOGSYS – Development Environment of Embedded Systems

Thanks to the rapid development of electronics, systems built with programmable logic devices (FPGAs and CPLDs) and microcontrollers are more and more widely used. Their great advantage that arises from their programmable nature as compared to systems using application specific integrated circuits is their flexibility, which cuts back the cost of the development of the prototype to a great extent. Using of programmable devices requires efficient development support. As for simple applications, fast and reliable configuration of the devices is a basic requirement. More complicated applications require efficient support for development, debug and verification. Unfortunately, programmable device manufacturers have such development tools that focus on their own devices and usually offer only a limited communication support with the application itself. The power supply of the target system is also usually left to external instruments. For that reason a new development environment has been created, which integrates the configuration, the communication and the power supply features in a vendor independent manner.