Abstract
FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) is a widely known logic device which implements its internal circuit by programming. It has been mainly used in computer and LSI engineers as a prototype of LSI development. Currently, researchers who are in other fields keep their eyes on FPGA design and challenge to implement their sophisticated methods and applications into hardware. However, researchers who do have LSI design experiences must overcome barriers such as learning hardware knowledge and setup of FPGA design environments. Our developed platform named as "NEXUS" (Next-generation EXtra University-education System) provides FPGA research and education environment by e-Learning system and remote controlled FPGA, which guarantees a smooth collaboration between interdisciplinary researchers on FPGAs. We present the NEXUS platform and report the interdisciplinary project of "high-speed information search on FPGAs" as instances by utilization of this platform. In the project, we have studied the FPGA implementations in wireless communication and regular expression matching.
