For those finding this by doing a search in youtube, as I did, this particular video is not an introduction to FPGA's nor to Verilog. I'm not sure what would be an effective title. It seems to be a class from the middle of a college course on FPGA's and Verilog. In any case, I appreciate this type of info being available on the net.
Hello all! I’de would like to say that for me this is great! I was involved with the electronics industry working with all types of digital and analog circuitry for 30 years until i retired being at the start an electronics tech to an engineering tech. After i retired i had tons of time to work on robotics as a hobby with microcontrollers like the Arduino and Parallax to now to my first development board learning about the Altera DE2 FPGA board. I currently bought a Terasic DE10-Nano for future robotic project because of its small size. Any way i want to say even tho i do not have an engineering degree, i do have enough background to get by doing this as a hobby. For me Bruce Land’s lectures for me are a god send and i want to say keep the videos coming. I may not be as smart as an engineering student’s knowledge, but these lectures help me understand a lot more on what these FPGA and VHDL boards hardware and software are capable of doing, Plus I never really cared for the topics you need to take for college, but this is the best i have found anywhere to what an engineer needs. So thanks professor Land, it is worth my time to watch and learn!
@@ece4760 Thanks for the feedback! Do you have that link handy too? I’m really thrilled that you have answered, i wasn’t expecting that since the videos are 7 years old! If it isn’t asking for too much, some in lab On the board training videos would be nice too! If we have any problems that need more explanation, we’ll drop you a line but we dont want to take up your time, I really appreciate your answering!
@@bdspvl ru-vid.com/group/PLKcjQ_UFkrd7UcOVMm39A6VdMbWWq-e_c Is the link. I have videos of students explaining thei projects in lab. The projects are on Cyclone5, Cyclone4 and Cylone2. Cyclone5 are the newest. ru-vid.com/group/PL2E0D05BEC0140F13
Writing is explaining, but in any case, we both know that the only place that students learn ANYTHING is in the lab. The lectures just serve to get them warmed up for lab.
Well, sure, but I think that if students are going to actually learn from a lecture that they need to do more than just look a powerpoint handout. Writing on the board paces the class so that students can write it down and thus make it their own.
Your comment is narrowly true for power up, but for general 'reset' , registers are not set any particular way unless a state machine sets them. It can be used to set ROM values, but there are better ways.
I love it; sitting in on a Cornell lecture without having to worry about student loan officers coming after me (I have an "interesting" history with JHU and a grant that paid for, well everything, seemingly disappearing from the records of the finance department). Also I'm guilty of knowing much more about VDHL than Verilog, only because I've worked with European and Asian peers in the past and that is their preference so it became mine by default, however I am loving this series.
Honestly Bruce Land without having used or throughtly read any of the freee!!! offered education by you i'm already overhelmingly thankful. I don't know who is involved on the online material that is handed in the labs but at the moment he is truly a god for me. Thanks a lot for all the collected material. Hopefully any of you reads this as it is really amazing you put this together for anyone able to find it
You can read the research from University of NSW in Australia on the subject. One of the professors that conducted the study stated that: "The use of the PowerPoint presentation has been a disaster. It should be ditched."
I don't like it when the teacher is just about to explain a thing and interrupted by a student's question... can't you just write it down and ask later... For example, the loop controlled fixed index limit. what is it? at 7:25
At 33:50, could someone explain how you get that from a 1bit system? I can understand 0, and 1, but how can you consider A and A' when the machine only really uses 1's and 0's? Is this fuzzy logic? Could someone point me to a source that explains this? Thank you.
Do you mean how you get 4 logic functions from one bit? The output can: set the value to 1, set the value to 0, set the value to the input, set the value to NOT the input. This is just four possible binary outputs.
It is universally known that PowerPoint is the worst kind of teaching aid. It is better to not have anything than to use PP. PP is for showing charts at presentations.
At my uni we use blackboards to. It is far more readable. No risk of using almost empty pens and no issues with read/green on white which is really hard for manny people to read. Whats with the whining anyway?
>Download a copy of cortex 2, there is a free version avaliable from altera, go to the altera university page, download a copy of cortex 2.... 2.7 Gb.... ANYONE KNOWS THE ACTUAL LINK?
Easier is never a good reason for anything. The difficulty of something is directly proportional to the reward and satisfaction. Regardless of that, you are an EXCELLENT teacher. Thanks for sharing these videos.
+RobPaul Easier is always better than difficult, so that's indeed an excellent reason. As for the "difficulty of something is directly proportional to the reward", that's just bull. There are many things that are difficult for no reason at all other than the fact that they have been badly made. At the end of the learning process what sticks with you is just the frustration and the will to punch whoever made them in the face.
