An FPGA Board Used for Digital Logic Labs

Abstract

Digital logic design is an essential part of the curriculum of a university’s electrical engineering department. With the increasing importance of digital devices in today’s society and the increasing complexity of the digital devices used, most electrical engineering departments offer more than one course on digital logic design. The digital logic courses offered typically consist of an introductory digital logic course followed by one or more courses focusing on aspects of advanced digital logic design. Such advanced digital logic design courses involve the use of hardware description languages, field-programmable logic arrays (FPGAs), and electronic design automation (EDA) computer-aided design (CAD) tools, including back-end tools such Synopsis’ logic synthesis tool [1], and front-end tools, such as Exsedia’s Nimbus [2], used for graphical high-level design.