The FITkit platform incorporates an embedded system which enables students to create and implement complex designs not only of software projects but also of hardware projects or complete applications. So it is very important to invent and implement methods that can be used for testing the system during its whole life cycle. This thesis is engaged in testing the FITkit. The first part of the thesis is dedicated to familiarizing with the FITkit and its whole architecture. Terminology description and analysis of the dilemmas in testing can be found in the next part of the thesis. Further follows description of methods and procedures for testing the FITkit platform. A part of the thesis is a design of a testing application and description of its practical realization.

This master's thesis focuses on designing and implementing a framework that would offer basic program resources for application development on hardware platform FITkit Minerva. First part of this work focuses on designing a data channel between PC and the kit for which the USB interface was used. Next part focuses on implementing a channel between an ARM based microcontroller and FPGA Xilinx Spartan-6. That led to creating a special system inside FPGA that allows adding new HW components that communicate with the microcontroller, which can be used for implementing HW acceleration techniques. Another outcome of this work is a debugging interface that allows to program and debug FPGA using development environment Xilinx ISE without a need of the original Xilinx JTAG adapter. This was achieved by using the XVC protocol that allows to create a custom JTAG adapter that in this case was implemented in the software of the microcontroller.

Eight-bit computer ZX Spectrum has been created 30 years ago. It was extremely popular in its time and it has many fans till now, which still developing new application and games. There are also many new hardware extensions like IDE HDD driver, SD/MMC memory driver etc. The aim of this thesis is the design and develop of ZX Spectrum emulator, which will be based on modern PFGA technology and it will use modern periphery like VGA monitor, SD/MMC memory cards etc.

VLIW processors are parallel computing devices that are used in embedded devices as well as in servers. My thesis contains description of this architecture. It is aimed at making and subsequently implementing design of custom general-purpose VLIW processor with wide range of configurable parameters. Operational implementation of such processor in VHDL which can be tested on FITkit platform is an integral part.

The goal of this thesis is to design a hardware realization of circuit which will implement the AES algorithm. A motivation was to make an acceleration against the classic software encryption. The acceleration is achieved by special designed parts of the circuit, which correspond to particular operations of the AES algorithm. First, there was necessary to design the circuit. In the next step there was a need to describe the designed circuit by the VHDL language. Then the circuit was simulated and synthesized. Due to comparing the circuit with software processing a software implementation was created. Both implementations were created for the FITKit platform. The hardware implementation is made by the FPGA technology and the software implementation is realized in a microcontroller. The result of the thesis is almost one thousandfold acceleration against the classic software encryption.

Text describes some of the most common tools used for project management and bug/issue tracking. Describes advantages and possibilities of connecting them to more complex systems of administration and version control. It also describe analysis and design of new FITkit specific system, and ways to catch errors in QDevKit application. The rest of text describes whole implementation including examples of applied constructions and logical layout.

This thesis deals with possible and realized decompression and playing of video on platforms, using FPGA unit. For implementation of this player is used platform FITKit, which has integrated VGA connector and large enough RAM memory. It uses a hard drive as memory medium with FAT32 file system.

This paper discusses the possibilities of realization of VGA grabber for FITkit. Text is focused on software and hardware implementation possibilities. The first part introduces the reader to the theory of the issue. Next, the paper proposes several options of VGA grabber implementation and brief evaluation of alternatives. The second part describes a chosen architecture of VGA grabber of the featured options and includes a brief summary of the findings of the processor LPC4370 from NXP and USB Video Class UVC, on which the resulting architecture is based. The conclusion includes a brief summary.

Embedded systems are dedicated to perform specific tasks, so design engineers can optimize them to reduce the size and cost of the product and increase the reliability and performance. However, result of these optimizations is that some architectures may lack commonly used technologies such as direct memory access (DMA). We may encounter with this situation in family of microcontrollers HCS08. The main theme of this work is to describe a design of DMA controller that can be added into the family of microcontrollers HCS08.

The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a reader with existed commercial applications and control the FITkit using QDevKit. The main goal of the thesis is proposed and implemeted modul for application QDevKit which makes easy proposal and progress applications for platform FITkit.