Introduction to Teaching the Digital Electronics Design using FPGA

Abstract

This paper is focused on the design of digital electronics using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) that can be easily applicable to school education process. At the beginning, paper is aimed at comparison of digital and analog electrical signals, and a brief introduction to digital electronics. The next section addresses an introduction and brief characterization of FPGA board Basys3. This board is suitable for education purposes as a teaching aid for students who would like to test their gained skills in hardware description languages or school subjects focused on the digital circuits design. Then, the design flow for digital circuits using Vivado design environment is described. The final section concludes the paper.