Digital Logic Introduction Using FPGAs

Abstract The paper describes the adaptation of the Computer Architecture laboratory works given at the Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest to the new trends in digital logic design. The laboratories are given in a gradual approach, starting with simulation, continuing with breadboard design and finishing with circuits made on perf-board. We are preparing now to complement the practical side of the laboratory with Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design, where the students will conceive, simulate, synthesize and implement the circuits already studied in the initial approach that used simulation followed by integrated circuits practical design.

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