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About the Course

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5361, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. Hardware Description Languages for Logic Design enables students to design circuits using VHDL and Verilog, the most widespread design methods for FPGA Design. It uses natural learning processes to make learning the languages easy. Simple first examples are presented, then language rules and syntax, followed by more complex examples, and then finally use of test bench simulations to verify correctness of the designs. Lecture presentations are reinforced by many programming example problems so that skill in the languages is obtained. After completing this course, each student will have fundamental proficiency in both languages, and more importantly enough knowledge to continue learning and gaining expertise in Verilog and VHDL on their own....

Top reviews

HA

Sep 4, 2024

The course has been incredibly informative, and I’ve gained a lot from it. The assignments were very helpful in strengthening my practical skills in both VHDL and Verilog. Many thanks to the team!

BM

Jul 26, 2023

Absolutely the best course I've taken! It was incredibly comprehensive, and I learned so much from it. Highly recommended for anyone looking to delve into FPGA and hardware design.

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By Julien T

Dec 7, 2021

Interesting course but exercises shall be reworked as sometimes it's not clear what is the expected output so we end up guessing via the testbench. Another issue is that some half backed quizzes prevent you from practicing the exercises until you pass even though practicing is key to understand the concepts...

By Islam E

May 31, 2020

this course need a person who knows before the basics of both VHDL/Verilog. because i know some basics of VHDL i understood its part but verilog was a little bit hard to me to understand it

By Harsh A

Jun 15, 2020

Verilog part is explained very well but VHDL part completely unsatisfied.

By Sachin A

Apr 21, 2020

Very introductory. Verilog and VHDL exercises are copied.

By Sakshat R

May 28, 2020

Innovative teaching, but very poor assignments

By Samuel C

Aug 14, 2020

A decent introduction to HDL.

By Pushkar A

Sep 30, 2020

Teaching could be better.

By JYOTI S S

Jul 11, 2021

good

By Nur Y Y

Sep 27, 2022

Assignments are not clear and I cannot open assignment files. Because of this I cannot finish the course. Also, ModelSim download link was not working. I have a lot of trouble about download.

By Ethan R

Apr 11, 2020

The highlight of this course was the recommended reading materials.

By Surabhi M

Nov 8, 2020

not clear.

By Vadim P

Jun 8, 2025

The material is outdated, focuses entirely too much on the irrelevant information (like data specs of a specific FPGA models which will most likely be absolete by the time you take this course), presentation is poor, quizzes are filled with ambiguous questions (I literally facepalmed myself when I had to type in a missing word in a sentence and I lost a point because I didn't guess right whether it should be "higher" or "bigger" or "larger" or whatever else it was supposed to be). But the worst part is the autograder. I spent more time trying to figure out why I got 0/100 even though I know I did everything right, then I spent on learning about FPGA. Eventually I unenrolled from course 4 week 2, just 2 weels from completing the pathway just because I got so frustrated from dealing with the laziness of people who designed this course. Bottom-line is if you just need credit hours to get your degree you can take this course, but if you want to actually leatn about FPGAs, just read any of the numerous books available online for free.

By Hussein A

Aug 7, 2023

Boring, feels like a very very bad walkthrough video. doesn't even tell you the big picture or what you're about to do. Instead just gives you straight up steps with no thought.

By saikumar s

Oct 30, 2020

There is no technical support

By Muhammet M K

Aug 23, 2021

awful