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An experimental programmable environment for prototyping digital circuits

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In this paper we present the experimental programmable environment for prototyping digital circuits. The environment is composed of the PC and the programmable prototyping board composed of 3 FPGAs. One FPGA is used to implement the prototyping design, while the other two FPGAs are used to implement an interface between the prototyping design and the PC. PC is used for designing a digital circuit, automatic generation of the interface logic, programming the FPGAs and as a test engine for functional verification of the designed circuit. The presented environment is used in the regular educational process and the sample students projects are summarized.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Andrej Trost, Roman Kuznar, Andrej Zemva & Baldomir Zajc

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  1. Andrej Trost
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Reiner W. Hartenstein Manfred Glesner

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Trost, A., Kuznar, R., Zemva, A., Zajc, B. (1996). An experimental programmable environment for prototyping digital circuits. In: Hartenstein, R.W., Glesner, M. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic Smart Applications, New Paradigms and Compilers. FPL 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1142. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61730-2_36

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