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Updated in [July 18th, 2023]

This course, Learn Digital Electronics using Schematics & FPGA Boards, is designed to give students an opportunity to kick-start their skills to Design Digital Electronics without the hurdle of having to code in HDL. Concepts are first explained, then demonstrated by using the ISE software from Xilinx. Coding in HDL languages will not be taught in this course but instead, Schematics will be used as it is easier for beginners. Students will only need to drag, drop and connect schematic symbols together, then run through the flow of ISE to generate the bit file. The bit file will be downloaded on the board to see the results. The goal is to quickly put together designs and try them on the board, without the hurdle of VHDL/Verilog coding. In this way, students will focus on how Digital Electronics works. This course does not show software simulation but focuses on testing designs straight on the board. To participate in this course, students will need to download and install Xilinx ISE software in the Webpack version, which is free. Ideally, students will need the Basys 2 board, which uses the Spartan 3E FPGA, to verify their design on hardware. The course is split into sections of the main building blocks of Digital Electronics such as Registers, Logic Gates, Random Access memory, etc. In each section, there is an explanation of various blocks. After most blocks explanation, there will be a practical activity on how to implement the circuit on an FPGA and verify the design on the Basys 2 board. There are also generous numbers of quizzes between the lessons to help the students keep focused and find the course fun to undertake. Most of the practical activities will be simply to load the design on the Basys2 board and use the switches as input & LEDs as output. Additionally, at the end of the course, students will also learn how to connect the board to other external components using JTAGs through the use of wires and a breadboard.

Course Syllabus

Introduction

Getting Ready

Gates

Registers

Multiplexers

Counters

Arithmetics

Random Access Memory - RAM

Finite States Machines (FSM)