‫Welcome to the learning through labs using VHDL of course in this course I'm going to teach you a little
‫bit about myself as well as the structure of the Course and what you can expect to learn a little bit
‫about me.
‫My alma mater is the University of Dayton.
‫I graduated with my Masters of Science Engineering and my focus was on embedded systems.
‫I'm a diehard Pittsburgh Steelers fan.
‫My MLB team is the New York Yankees and I love playing with LPGA embedded systems and electronics.
‫The course structure at the end of the course will cover several different topics.
‫One is how to download and install all the required tools to successfully complete this course as well
‫as how to select an FPGA development board for this course.
‫Then after that we're going to jump straight into the labs because this course is only a few labs and
‫so that's what we're going to focus on is the labs we're going to introduce a topic and then I'll give
‫you an assignment and after that you'll get a certain amount of code to start with and a design guy
‫which will kind of guide you through how to complete this project and then you actually do the lab and
‫there'll be a lot of labs.
‫We have 10 different labs and that's the whole idea of this course is Lancair lab so that's where you
‫are going to learn the most is through the labs and what we learn.
‫Several different topics where we learn how to generate random numbers on a digital system or in this
‫case or FPGA how to multiply signed numbers as well as a little bit of processor design and specifically
‫the arithmetic logic unit.
‫And also we're going to interface with various different sensors including a temperature sensor a tilt
‫sensor microphone a potentiometer as well the liquid crystal display.
‫So now that you know everything we're going to do and a little bit about me let's get started.