Remote Reconfigurable Systems for Electronic Engineering and Education

Nowadays, reconfigurable systems, in general, and FPGA (field-programmable gate array) based devices, in particular, constitute an essential part of engineering practice. The paper argues the importance of reconfigurable systems in engineering and especially in education and proposes effective learning and design methods and tools, which include laboratory templates, animated tutorials, problem-oriented examples, a remotely reconfigurable prototyping system, and a virtual software/reconfigurable hardware co-simulation environment. The primary objective of these methods and tools is design space exploration, engineering training, and education. Keywords-reconfiguration; FPGA; prototyping systems; engineering; education