Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

A laboratory for a digital design course using FPGAs

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Field-Programmable Logic Architectures, Synthesis and Applications (FPL 1994)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 849))

Included in the following conference series:

Abstract

In our digital design laboratory we have replaced the traditional wired circuit modules by workstations equipped with an extension board containing a single FPGA. This hardware is supplemented with a set of software tools consisting of a compiler for the circuit specification language Lola, a graphical layout editor for design entry, and a checker to verify conformity of a layout with its specification in Lola. The new laboratory has been used with considerable success in digital design courses for computer science students. Not only is this solution much cheaper than collections of modules to be wired, but it also allows for more substantial and challenging exercises.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. B. Heeb, I. Noack, Hardware Description of the Workstation Ceres-3, Technical Report 168, Institute for Computer Systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, October 1991

    Google Scholar 

  2. Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, AT6000 Series. 1993

    Google Scholar 

  3. M. Reiser. The Oberon System — User's Guide and Programmer's Manual. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. 1991.

    Google Scholar 

  4. R.S. Boyer, J. Strother Moore, Proof-Checking, Therorem-Proving, and Program Verification, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 29, American Math. Society, 1984, 119–132

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Computer Systems Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Stephan Gehring, Stefan Ludwig & Nikiaus Wirth

Authors
  1. Stephan Gehring
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Stefan Ludwig
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Nikiaus Wirth
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Reiner W. Hartenstein Michal Z. Servít

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1994 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Gehring, S., Ludwig, S., Wirth, N. (1994). A laboratory for a digital design course using FPGAs. In: Hartenstein, R.W., Servít, M.Z. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic Architectures, Synthesis and Applications. FPL 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 849. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58419-6_123

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58419-6_123

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-58419-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-48783-8

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation