The Reconfigurable UML Machine Project Group

Abstract

This paper describes a seminar of a project group consisting of students that realizes a code generation from UML to a reconfigurable hardware platform. The usage of high-level modeling is nowadays essential in the software and in the hardware development. The reason for this is the complexity the industries have to cope with. The idea to specify a hardware system at such a high abstraction level should be realized for a given application within the project group. By dealing with the application the students learn to use these new development methods for system design, especially hardware design. Furthermore, an overview of the structure and organization of project groups are given.