FPGArcade: Motivating the Study of Digital Hardware
Danial Neebel, Nicholas Burek, Thomas Griebel · 2020
This paper presents the FPGArcade system that makes game development simple while still providing insightful details into low-level concepts.Fledgling programmers can test the waters of the hardware/software interface without having to go through several courses in digital logic, computer architecture, and electric circuits.Using an inexpensive FPGA-based platform from Digilent Inc. and software from the Xilinx Corporation, a programmer with some basic skills in C or C++ programming is able to create simple computer games.Since the system is FPGAbased the student can dig deeper and learn about hardware development by modifying the VHDL to provide new features.