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About the Course

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5360, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. Programmable Logic has become more and more common as a core technology used to build electronic systems. By integrating soft-core or hardcore processors, these devices have become complete systems on a chip, steadily displacing general purpose processors and ASICs. In particular, high performance systems are now almost always implemented with FPGAs. This course will give you the foundation for FPGA design in Embedded Systems along with practical design skills. You will learn what an FPGA is and how this technology was developed, how to select the best FPGA architecture for a given application, how to use state of the art software tools for FPGA development, and solve critical digital design problems using FPGAs. You use FPGA development tools to complete several example designs, including a custom processor. If you are thinking of a career in Electronics Design or an engineer looking at a career change, this is a great course to enhance your career opportunities. Hardware Requirements: You must have access to computer resources to run the development tools, a PC running either Windows 7, 8, or 10 or a recent Linux OS which must be RHEL 6.5 or CentOS Linux 6.5 or later. Either Linux OS could be run as a virtual machine under Windows 8 or 10. The tools do not run on Apple Mac computers. Whatever the OS, the computer must have at least 8 GB of RAM. Most new laptops will have this, or it may be possible to upgrade the memory....

Top reviews

CB

Jun 11, 2023

This was a great course, especially for someone who has never studied anything about FPGAs before. Timothy is an excellent lecturer whose practical experience in the industry comes through.

LS

May 20, 2020

Great course! It is an introductory level, however, deep aspects of Intel Quartus Prime are studied and used. This course also gives a broad perspective overview of FPGA and CPLD families.

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By Sandeep D

Jun 27, 2020

Good opportunity to learn with practical knowledge.

By Valentin K

Oct 4, 2021

Course gives is you a really big picture.

By Prashant G

Nov 21, 2018

Good course,step by step understanding .

By Cường N Q

Jul 12, 2021

Very good for a newbie in FPGA design!

By Megha M S

Jul 19, 2019

please provide fully free courses

By chafroud a

May 22, 2022

C'est un cours trés interssant

By Akshay S

Feb 21, 2021

Really knowledgeable course.

By S V

Apr 9, 2020

very informative course

By Sushrut S

Jun 6, 2020

Nice and informative.

By Aaron A

Dec 5, 2022

Good intro to Altera

By AKSHAY

Feb 16, 2021

Really good course.

By WU-TE Y

Jul 5, 2020

It's good lecture!

By Utku G

Sep 10, 2023

Videos freeze.

By Laxman N

Aug 24, 2020

Very helpful

By ASCHALEW A

Apr 8, 2022

very good

By sai h

Jan 20, 2020

good

By Molly S

May 27, 2020

I took an FPGA course in college and wanted to refresh my knowledge. This course did a nice job of introducing the FPGA Quartus software and some basic knowledge about FPGAs. However, the FPGA jargon is overwhelming. To an experienced engineer, it sounds normal, but to new students, it's too difficult to keep up with.

Week 3 was not helpful. No one wants to sit and read datasheets, much less listen to someone else read datasheets (no offense to Dr. Scherr!). Week 3's content would have been better suited to a project format. For example, each student researches an FPGA of their choice (from a instructor chosen selection), then discusses/shares their information with the discussion board. Sort of like the Jigsaw Method teaching style.

I do appreciate taking this class and feel that it has helped me gain a foundation in FPGA. Thank you for your course!

By Markus P

Jun 24, 2023

I think it would be better fit for this course to be six or eight weeks. It gives a good overview over the basics of FPGA programming but is superficial in parts which makes it difficult to follow for true starters.

The three stars are mostly because of the outdated course materials. Many links are broken and no one seems to care to fix them. Furthermore the forums seem to be practically abandoned. I encountered a few threads asking questions or reporting errors which were not answered for long time.

By Samuel C

Jun 5, 2020

Overall a pretty gentle introduction into FPGA design. The course gives a good overview of the FPGA workflow with practical examples. However, the assessments emphasize quite a bit of rote memorization rather than logical learning. I would recommend future revisions to course material to more heavily emphasize the digital logic constructs fundamental to FPGA design rather than discussion of commercial products.

By Parikshit K C

Jul 16, 2018

Good overview however not very exciting. One week seemed to be dedicated to almost reading out spec/selection guides of FPGA and it sounded monotonous. Week 4 was much more involving and took more than usual time to finish. There was a mentioned 3 more specializations but didn't hear what those are and when those will start.

By Yosi L

May 7, 2020

not very good for beginners.

First week was good, from second week on shows a lot of details without explaining the motivation behind them which makes the course really boring.

Dropped the course.

By HRISHIKESH P

Sep 7, 2020

The first 3 weeks were excellent. Instead of designing NIOS 2 processor in week 4 could develop pipemult from the scratch right by developing each block instead of providing ready-made blocks.

By LAKSHMI D

Mar 12, 2020

I would learn many thing about "Introduction to FPGA Design for Embedded Systems" from this course

By Ammar A K

Mar 13, 2019

There should be more examples of how to practically code and run FPGA using VHDL

By Sakshat R

May 22, 2020

Good theory, decent project work