Experience teaching a senior level course on digital design using FPGAs
نویسنده
چکیده
Enhancing undergraduate and graduate curriculum to include state-of-the-art tools and techniques deserves utmost importance in this fast pacedworld of engine ering and technological growth. Design, the art of applying one's knowledge and exp erienc e to the solution of real problems is what makes engineering an exciting and rewarding career. In this pap er,exp erience from teaching a senior level course entitled \Digital Design Using FPGAs" at the University of South Florida is described.
منابع مشابه
Teaching System Integration using FPGAs
To teach students circuit design with respect to system integration in an actual application environment, we use FPGAs as a part of the control system of a technical process. An infrared light based sensor system and an infrared based communication system together with controlling software have been developed by students in this context. All digital processing is implemented with Altera FPGAs t...
متن کاملAdvanced course on Embedded Systems design using FPGA
As the number of embedded system applications and their complexities are increasing there is a demand to use the advanced technologies for embedded system design. This course describes the concepts of system design with the latest FPGAs (Field programmable gate arrays) which can also implement soft-core microcontrollers, and lists a number of laboratory exercises and end of the semester course ...
متن کاملAc 2012-5510: Work in Progress - Teaching Hardware Im- Plementation of Digital Signal Processing Algorithms on Fpgas
In today’s world the amount of sampled data is increasing as more efficient and faster analog to digital converters (ADC) are becoming available. There is a need to implement Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solutions in hardware to accommodate the current processing rates of this data. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platforms offer enormous resources suitable for such implementation. In t...
متن کاملTeaching Top-down Design Using VHDL and CPLD
This paper presents a teaching experience in using VHDL and CPLD in the senior digital design course. The course focus on teaching the top-down design methodology through hands-on experiments. The industrial available tools — Maxplus2, made possible through Altera’s University Program, provide our students a smooth transition from academic concepts to industrial practice. VHDL, the industrial s...
متن کاملSession T1C A First Course in Digital Design Using VHDL and Programmable Logic
Present industry practice has created a high demand for systems designers with knowledge and experience in using programmable logic in the form of CPLDs and FPGAs in addition to hardware description languages. Many universities offer this type of training in advanced digital engineering courses. This paper describes our experience in integrating VHDL and programmable logic devices based on Xili...
متن کامل