Master thesis presents completed investigation of soft-core processor MicroBlaze, available from Xilinx company–one of main producers of Field Programmable Gate Arrays. The scientific investigation was done in a framework of two successfully completed projects that in years 2008 and 2009 were supported by Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation. Development of two original embedded systems based on soft-core processor MicroBlaze is described in Master thesis. Ant colony optimization technique is implemented in the first embedded system that is devoted for image processing. Lithuanian isolated word recognition is implemented in the second embedded system that can be used for remote voice control of various devices. All implemented algorithms are experimentally evaluated on the subject of performance, resource utilization and influence of different FPGA boards upon execution speed of embedded systems. Investigation results of embedded systems are publicized in two scientific articles published in journals that are indexed in ISI WEB of Science database and in two articles published in international conference proceedings. Results are also announced in one national and two international conferences.

Raktažodžiai: MicroBlaze, FPGA, Field Programmable Gate Array