FPGA and DSP Based Programmable System Used for Educational Purposes

Abstract

With the computation power of today’s computers and advances in CAD and EDA, the design cycle is minimized Until the first appearance of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in the mid-eighties [1], a certain gap between the circuit design phase and the circuit implementation phase existed. Implementation in a mask-programmable technology such as mask-programmable gate arrays or standard cells typically requires extensive manufacturing effort that results in a high cost and relatively long implementation period of several weeks.