| Resumo: | Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) were invented by Xilinx in 1985, i.e. less than 30 years ago. The influence of FPGAs on many directions in engineering is growing continuously and rapidly. There are many reasons for such progress and the most important are the inherent reconfigurability of FPGAs and relatively cheap development cost. Recent field-configurable micro-chips combine the capabilities of software and hardware by incorporating multi-core processors and reconfigurable logic enabling the development of highly optimized computational systems for a vast variety of practical applications, including high-performance computing, data, signal and image processing, embedded systems, and many others. In this context, the main goals of the thesis are to study the new micro-chips, namely the Zynq-7000 family and to apply them to two selected case studies: data sort and Hamming weight calculation for long vectors.
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