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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

RD

Oct 24, 2018

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.

KS

Jul 30, 2020

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" !!!

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By Arjun A P

Jul 27, 2020

Found this course very useful. But the explaination of circuits could be improved as it is a beginners course

By David T

Dec 17, 2019

Very nice course giving a good overview of FPGA, though sometimes not detailed enough. It is an introduction.

By ahmed f

Mar 28, 2022

important and usefull , easy , but don't get deeply in the archietecture of the fbga

By RAVAL V H

May 31, 2019

excellent course to get familiar with basic of Quartus prime design tool

By Zhibo Z

Feb 28, 2023

I learned a lot about the history and structure of FPGAs.

By Michael M

Dec 23, 2022

A bit too heavy on Altera Quartus, but some good basics.

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 AMEL C

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 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 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.