Abstract. In recent years there has been a rapid increase in demand for e-learning systems. The software development process plays a crucial role in the design and development of a high-quality e-learning system. However, to date, there is no comprehensive comparative study of open source software (OSS) development process for different OS e-learning systems. This hinders the development of a generalized OSS development process, a key requisite for rapidly developing highquality OS e-learning systems. This paper provides a full analysis of different existing and successful OS e-learning software systems and the best practices followed in the e-learning development. In particular, this paper investigates the software development activities of Moodle, Dokeos and ILIAS. An activity flow representation that describes their current development practices is constructed individually for all three OS e-learning systems. Further, a comprehensive comparative analysis is carried out that leads to an explicit identification of various development stages of the three OS e-learning systems.

Abstract. To date, there is no comprehensive study of open source software development process (OSSDP) carried out for open source (OS) e-learning systems. This paper presents the work which objectively analyzes the open source software development (OSSD) practices carried out by e-learning systems development communities and their results are represented using DEMO models. These results are compared using ISO/IEC 12207:2008. The comparison of DEMO models with ISO/IEC 12207 is a useful contribution; as it provides deeper understanding to-wards the OS e-learning system development.

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This paper presents the implementation of QR Decomposition based Recursive Least Square (QRD-RLS) algorithm on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) using hardwaresoftware co-design. The system has been implemented on Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA with Microblaze soft core processor. The hardware part consists of a custom peripheral that solves the part of the algorithm with higher computational costs and the software part consists of an embedded soft core processor that manages the control functions and rest of the algorithm. The speed and flexibility of FPGAs render them viable for such computationally intensive application. This paper also presents the implementation results and their analysis.