Prototyping hardware and software environment for teaching digital circuitdesign

In the paper, we present our latest achievements and experience in undergra duate teaching of digital circuits, integrated circuits and embedded system s by exploiting our prototyping hardware and software environment The hardw are environment is based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) modules th at provide sufficient flexibility and support a broad scope of digital desi gn applications. In addition, the designed software environment supports us er-friendly hardware verification of the logic circuits implemented on the hardware system. We describe some typical applications and student projects implemented on the programmable prototyping system.