Prototyping Hardware and Software Environment for Teaching Digital Circuit Design

Abstract

In the paper, we present our latest achievements and experience in undergraduate teaching of digital circuits, integrated circuits and embedded systems by exploiting our prototyping hardware and software environment. The hardware environment is based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) modules that provide sufficient flexibility and support a broad scope of digital design applications. In addition, the designed software environment supports user-friendly hardware verification of the logic circuits implemented on the hardware system. We describe some typical applications and student projects implemented on the programmable prototyping system.