This course will give you hands-on FPGA design experience that uses all the concepts and skills you have developed up to now. You will need to purchase a DE10-Lite development kit. You will setup and test the MAX10 DE10-Lite board using the FPGA design tool Quartus Prime and the System Builder.

FPGA Capstone: Building FPGA Projects

FPGA Capstone: Building FPGA Projects
This course is part of FPGA Design for Embedded Systems Specialization

Instructor: Timothy Scherr
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Create a working FPGA design using Quartus Prime and run it on an evaluation board
Understand and practice all aspects of FPGA development, including conception, design, implementation, and debugging.
Create in the FPGA a working system on a chip design with Nios II soft processor, RAM and FLASH memory, and several peripherals.
Become familiar with the FGPA development flow, particularly in the case of a SoC with software development flow included.
Skills you'll gain
- Electronics Engineering
- Laboratory Testing
- Laboratory Reports
- Program Development
- Laboratory Experience
- Hardware Design
- Engineering Documentation
- System Design and Implementation
- Electronic Systems
- Development Environment
- Simulation and Simulation Software
- Debugging
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Functional Design
- Software Development
- Software Design
- Electronic Hardware
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Reviewed on Jan 25, 2022
In general a good course structure and content. It lacks support on question and exercises.
Reviewed on May 28, 2021
Requires knowledge of FPGA design flow (make sure to take 3 courses before this one), great practical tasks that complete the whole specialization.
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very good information auto graded is a big turn off
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