The impact of hardware description languages on the education of hardware design

Navabi, Zainalabedin

doi:10.1109/ugim.1989.37342

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“…Thus, the training of a digital hardware engineer should be more focused on acquiring designing skills than on learning a specific Hardware Description Language (HDL) or software tool. However, proposals such as [4], [5], [6] are too focused on the details of the HDL and do not answer to the necessities of the industry [7]. Nowadays, many proposals are being made to try to reduce the gap between the educational community and industry [8], [9], [10], [11].…”

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A project driven digital design course using FPGAs

Araújo

Alves

2008

2008 19th EAEEIE Annual Conference

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This paper presents a project based teaching experience in an advanced digital systems design course with emphasis on design methodologies and laboratory assignments. Projects are the core of the practised teaching methodology and are structured in a pedagogical format according to the course programme. The use of the FPGA technology as the most suitable implementation technology for digital design teaching purposes is discussed. The course structure, oriented to the development of real working digital systems, challenges the students and increases their motivation. This way, the learning process is improved and the classes are more productive. A laboratory development infrastructure based on a FPGA device, used to implement a real-time video processing system, is presented. Examples of laboratory projects implemented with this infrastructure in a recent course edition are also presented.

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