Multimedia Tools for Teaching Reconfigurable Systems

Multimedia tools provide significant assistance in vast variety of different areas and one of them is education. The paper shows that such tools are especially important for constantly updating engineering courses which present recent advances in microelectronic industry. One of such courses is dedicated to learning reconfigurable systems based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) where many novel methods and tools have to be incorporated within the same course. The relevant pedagogical process can be greatly simplified with the aid of multimedia resources and elearning tools that have been developed and included into an integrated methodology successfully applied to the teaching of reconfigurable systems for more than 10 years. The paper discusses the impact of this methodology on attaining the required knowledge and experience with particular emphasis on course oriented tutorials, language templates and Internet resources.