How to prepare FPGA board for MATLAB

I am producing an application specific FPGA board. The algorithms written in Verilog and it works nicely. Now I want to give my customers the ability to change some of the algorithms. Many of my customers use MATLAB. For this reason I am thinking of MATLAB.

I imagine to create a MATLAB box in my design. The content of this box can be changed by my customers. The inputs and ouptpus are FIFO interfaces. (Not memories) I didn't find a turorial on how one can do this.

A few questions:

• What Xilinx software do my customers need ? Is there a free license ?
• What kind of Mathworks software do I need ? Do I need a full licence ?
• Is this a common approach ? Is there maybe a list of application specific boards offering Matlab support ?
• What changes do I have to make in my Xilinx project ?
• There is also a ARM processor on board. (it's a Zynq chip) Is it possible that a part of the MATLAB software runs on the ARM chip and a part runs in the FPGA ? Can the two parts exchange data ? What kind of support do I have to give to make this happen ?

Thank you for you help,

Thomas

Answer 1

[Kiran Kintali]

You would need license to HDL Coder.

See third party tool requirements for HDL Coder in this page.

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