Course: FPGA-Design

The lecture held in the winter semester covers the architectural fundamentals, design techniques and applications of modern reconfigurable logic devices, i.e. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The structure and operation of the various elementary elements of FPGAs such as memory cells, communication structures, and logic elements are presented. Furthermore, the design of digital circuits on FPGAs using hardware description languages is covered and knowledge of the corresponding design tools is imparted. Furthermore, the integration of software-programmable softcore processors into reconfigurable logic is discussed. Various application examples are used to demonstrate the use of FPGAs for demanding digital signal processing tasks.

1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of digital circuits
3. Technologies and architectures of FPGAs
4. Hardware-Design-Languages
5. Design tools for FPGAs

6.   Signal-processing with FPGAs
7.   Processors on FPGAs
8.   Dynamic and partial reconfiguration
9.   Architecture developments
10. FPGA-based applications