FPGA design projects with animated problems
Prawat Nagvajara · 2003
We present FPGA design projects where students solve problems in terms of devising algorithms to control real-time systems. They implement the control algorithms using FPGAs. The problems include control of a water tank, a traffic light, a monorail, a two-floor elevator, and a complex two-car elevator system. We developed a set of software applications that simulate and animate these problems, where an external FPGA observes and controls a simulated system in real-time via the computer serial communication.