Authors:
Suvi Karhu
;
Jarmo T. Alander
and
Otto Nurmi
Affiliation:
University of Vaasa, Finland
Keyword(s):
Animation, Digital Electronics, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Finite Impulse Response Filter (FIR), Engineering Studies, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design Languages (HDL), VHDL.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Authoring Tools and Content Development
;
Av-Communication and Multimedia
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
Abstract:
In this paper we describe some computing tools designed for aiding teaching of the basics of digital
electronics and its applications mainly in signal processing for university studies of engineering. In this
study we have developed two types of teaching tools: firstly, several small JavaScript-based simulation tools
for visualizing the basic functions of digital circuits and their hardware design language models, and
secondly, an FPGA-based FIR filter system for showing how to perform simple digital signal processing
tasks with FPGAs.