FPGA emulators in digital circuits education

Digital circuit emulators based on programmable devices are extensively used for research and educational purpose in the field of digital logic design. Emulation of a complex digital circuit is much faster than a gate level simulation. The circuit is also physically implemented in the emulation platform and can be embedded in the target system working at or near real-time speed. The paper presents an architecture for digital circuit emulators and the design flow used in digital circuits education. There are many student projects and diploma works which can be realized only by reprogramming the emulation system. We present some typical projects and applications implemented on our emulation systems