Very good course, focused on the quartus prime tool and touch a lot of topics on FPGA design, optimization, time analysis and a little of comparison between Altera and other FPGA vendors.
This is an extremely good course and I learned a lot. Thank you very much sir "Timothy Scherr " and all the people who make this a such a nice one. Also thank you very much "COURSERA" !!!
von WU-TE Y
•It's good lecture!
von Laxman N
•Very helpful
von ALAPATI S H
•good
von Molly S
•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!
von Samuel C
•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.
von Parikshit K C
•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.
von Yosi L
•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.
von HRISHIKESH P
•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.
von KARTHIK R
•Received minimal support for issues that came up during the course. I think the instructors need to be active in resolving issues that may come up during installation and execution.
von LAKSHMI D
•I would learn many thing about "Introduction to FPGA Design for Embedded Systems" from this course
von Ammar A K
•There should be more examples of how to practically code and run FPGA using VHDL
von Sakshat R
•Good theory, decent project work
von KARAN V
•IT WAS FUN
von PANG I H
•I do not recommend for busy working personal. I have to admit I have time problem spent the extra hours to search for external knowledge to complete some of the assignment which wasn't covered in the course. For example, knowledge of how to simplify a 4 bit adder require some level of k-map simplification know how, which forced me to spent the extra hours to google and learn. I originally purchase the cert because it was needed in some of the companies new project. After looking at the time pressure and deadline of the course, I decided to spent time study FPGA at intel youtube and post question at their technical support forum to get my job done.
von Andrea M
•For university students in the field of Engineering the course is quite basic, but it is good for having a small introduction on FPGA design, issues, and market.
The main concern is the price (too high, for me it is worth 20$ or something around), and the fact that in the course they don't explain the background of some steps that they do in the Software (it is simply "Select this", "Click this", etc.)
von Adwait K
•Not a course to learn a great deal about FPGA's. Seems like an elaborated explanation of a reference manual to use the Quartus Prime software.
von Xiaohang G
•no professor answering my any questions
von Carlo D
•This course is just a very slow paced and boring tutorial on Quartus Prime. Every lesson is simply a sequence of button to be pressed in Quartus, with no real explanation on why things are done and no room for thinking. Quiz questions are very bad written and show lack of interest in this course. Peer reviewed assignments are a waste of time and mainly consist of screenshots of Quartus reports. If you know digital design already, there is nothing to learn here. Equally, if you don't know it, this won't help you. Not recommented at all, in particular if you hope to learn something about FPGAs.
von Gasper
•This course is just weird, too much content crammed into "powerpoint" style of modern education. Buy a book, watch youtube fpga content lecture videos, join a university class,...
von Carlos M
•Software cannot be downloaded
von Joynul A
•It's too hard to complete
von Tarek M A M
•Very Advanced and brief
von Marco M
•very bad explanation.