Dracon: An open-hardware based platform for single-chip low-cost reconfigurable IoT Devices
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Parrilla, Luis; García, Antonio; Castillo-Morales, Encarnacion; Álvarez Bermejo, José Antonio; López-Villanueva, Juan Antonio; [et al.]Date
2022-07-02Abstract
The development of devices for the Internet of Things (IoT) requires the rapid prototyping of different hardware configurations. In this paper, a modular hardware platform allowing to prototype, test and even implement IoT appliances on low-cost reconfigurable devices is presented. The proposed platform, named Dracon, includes a Z80-clone microprocessor, up to 64 KB of RAM, and 256 inputs/outputs (I/Os). These I/Os can be used to connect additional co-processors within the same FPGA, external co-processors, communications modules, sensors and actuators. Dracon also includes as default peripherals a UART for programming and accessing the microprocessor, a Real Time Clock, and an Interrupt Timer. The use of an 8-bit microprocessor allows the use of the internal memory of the reconfigurable device as program memory, thereby, enabling the implementation of a complete IoT device within a single low-cost chip. Indeed, results using a Spartan 7 FPGA show that it is possible to implement Draco...
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IoT
FPGA
hardware prototyping
microprocessor
edge computing