FPGA-based systems in information and communication

This tutorial is intended to give introduction to FPGA-based systems, to illustrate advantages of these systems in terms of technical characteristics and economic aspects, to demonstrate design steps on practical examples, and to discuss potential benefits and case studies targeted to the scope of the conference. It will be also shown that teaching FPGA-based systems is very important in engineering education and in University of Aveiro (Portugal) it has been supported from 2009 by the Hewlett Packard grant entitled "Use of HP Mobile Technology to Enhance Teaching Reconfigurable Systems for Electrical and Computer Engineering Curricula". The tutorial can also be seen as a dissemination of the results demonstrating how the HP mobile technology has been used to create a stimulating environment to encourage collaborative and interactive learning, to provide better interaction between the students and teachers, to extend opportunities for design space exploration in the scope of reconfigurable systems, to work more efficiently with tutorials, design templates and libraries, to provide for fast exchange of design ideas between the students and the students and teachers, and to ultimately reduce the gap between the industrial requirements and capabilities of engineering training.