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New Educational Materials

		"Electronics 101" is a free, easy to use web-based classroom that can help anyone learn all about analog electronics and circuit design. There will be a growing number of projects, each designed for beginners and containing everything you need: Text, diagrams, experiments, exercises and more. We'll be adding more projects every week!

Electronics / EE resources

"Real Analog"

Author:
Tim Hanshaw

Real Analog is a comprehensive set of educational materials designed for use in introductory analog electrical circuit classes. The materials are presented as a series of modules, each corresponding to approximately one week of instruction in a typical university setting. Each module contains:

Three video lectures
Written materials to accompany these lectures
Exercises to accompany these lectures, designed for immediate reinforcement
One homework assignment
One lab assignment with a descriptive overview video

FPGA-based resources

"Real Digital - A hands-on approach to digital design"

Author:
Clint Cole

"Real Digital" is a collection of educational materials developed for use in introductory digital design classes. It is presented as an ordered series of modules that contain written chapters, exercises and hands-on design projects. Each module corresponds to about three lectures, or one week, in a typical University setting.

Real Digital is also available in print form, and can be bundled with a Basys 2 or Nexys 2 for a discount. See the textbook category for more information.

Xilinx FPGA tutorials
A comprehensive set of free, online training materials produced by our partner Xilinx. These tutorials cover a wide spectrum, from basic information for beginners to advanced design topics.

Free Online FPGA Design Training (Video courses)
Online FPGA, DSP and Embedded design training courses available 24x7 at no charge. Topics range from high-level software updates and ASIC to FPGA conversion strategies to specifics on device architecture and coding techniques.

FPGA Design Flow Workshop and Teaching Materials
This course provides professors with an introduction to designing with Xilinx FPGAs using ISE® Foundation™ software.

DSP Design Flow Workshop and Teaching Materials
This course provides professors with an introduction to FPGA-based Digital Signal Processing (DSP) design using the Mathworks MATLAB®/Simulink® software and Xilinx System Generator for DSP tools.

Embedded System Design Flow Workshop and Teaching Materials
This course provides professors with an introduction to FPGA-based embedded systems design using Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK) and perform on-chip hardware/software verification.

Tutorials

A collection of tutorial documents intended to demonstrate basic to advanced usage of design and programming tools.

VHDL Components

Logic components, implemented in VHDL, suitable for use in a customer project. Comes with all necessary documentation.


	FPGA Textbooks using Digilent products
	"Digital Design" / "Introduction to Digital Design" Written by Richard E. Haskell & Darrin M. Hanna These books use a wide range of examples to show you how to get started designing digital circuits, simulate them, and quickly and easily download them to your Basys™ or Nexys2™ board. Available in VHDL or Verilog editions.

	"Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays" Written by Dennis Silage This text describes modern embedded processing systems using the Xilinx Spartan-3E Starter Board, the Xilinx ISE WebPACK EDA, Xilinx LogiCORE blocks and the Xilinx PicoBlaze soft core processor. This new paradigm in embedded design utilizes the Verilog Hardware Description Language behavioral synthesis of controller and datapath constructs and the Finite State Machine for Digital Signal Processing, communications and control with the FPGA, external hard core peripherals, custom internal soft core peripherals and the soft core processor.

	"FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples: Xilinx Spartan-3 Version" Written by Pong P. Chu This book uses a "learn by doing" approach to introduce the concepts and techniques of VHDL and FPGA to designers through a series of hands-on experiments. FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples provides a collection of clear, easy-to-follow templates for quick code development, a large number of practical examples to illustrate and reinforce the concepts and design techniques, realistic projects that can be implemented and tested on a Xilinx prototyping board, and a thorough exploration of the Xilinx PicoBlaze soft-core microcontroller.

	"Fundamentals of Digital & Computer Design With VHDL" Written by Richard S. Sandige This text book provides an introductory course in digital design and computer design. VHDL is used throughout the book to generate most of the designs in the book. No prerequisite is required for this book. The book is intended for students enrolled in electrical engineering , computer engineering, and computer science in their freshman or sophomore year. The first half of the book (Chapters 1 through 9) concentrates on digital design and the second half of the book (Chapters 10 through 25) concentrates on computer design and assembly language programming.