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Abstract

In this study we brought up a design environment of reconfigurable computing system for college education. It includes a suite of software named RePCI Tool and a multi-FPGA PCI board named PCI-mFCU. In order to meet the requirements of more and more functionalities, complexities and shorter and shorter time-to-market of products, the environment also including an Intellectual Property library (IP Library). Hardware designers could reuse IP library to reduce the development time. After that, designers could verify their designs by PCI-mFCU. Using the proposed design environment, our students could learning digital logical design step by step from create basic component to function implement and target to system design by VHDL. Finally, we develop and verify some image processing applications using this rapid prototyping system with RePCI Tool and PCI-mFCU.