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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 Yusuf R

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Sep 13, 2023

Very boring

By KARAN R V

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May 2, 2020

IT WAS FUN

By Ryan B

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Aug 5, 2022

Mixed results per topic. For example, an entire quarter of this course is someone reading from data sheets.

By Tom S

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Jul 31, 2023

Overall, a pretty shallow overview of the topic. Project files are several years old, using old versions of the software that are often unavailable. The vast majority of lectures are just following along clicking the same things in the GUI as the instructor, with little explanation of the theory or methodology that led to making these decisions. Assignments are just submitting screenshots of the results (did you follow the clicking correctly), and quizzes often include details never mentioned in the lecture. Solutions and uploaded files from the course were often just unavailable. Looking back, I'd say this course is due for retirement and an overhaul for 2023 and beyond.

By kujira k

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May 15, 2023

Missing files for week 2.

Very outdated. Software environment is 7 years old.

Altera Max10s aren't even on the market anymore.

By Joynul A

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Jan 26, 2021

It's too hard to complete

By Tarek M A M

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Jan 25, 2021

Very Advanced and brief

By Marco

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Oct 12, 2019

very bad explanation.