I found the course very good, and of definite practical benefit to me in my work. It is possible that somewhere out there is training for free (with no peer review, no forum, etc), but the structured training and deadlines helped ensure that I got the right information needed to use the Quartus toolchain, and had a go at using them for an extermely reasonable fee - some face-to-face courses on VHDL that I have been on have cost a factor of 70 times more, and have been inflexible and more disruptive to my work life by having to travel some distance on a handful of days to receive the training. This on-line course was indeed demanding (I have a demanding job, and two young children on top of that), but I managed to get it done on time. WIthout the deadlines it probably would have fallen by the wayside.

The course itself is structured in a comprehensive way and the discussion forms always turn out to be more helpful than you would have thought. If there's one thing that can be improved is that the original lecture video posted are from 2017... yep that's vastly outdated in 2024. I had the Quartus Prime software complain and suggest that i should upgrade to new versions, use newers IPs, newer templates, newers NIOS processors etc...I also experienced some compatability issues because of this... for example the quartus prime software looks bugged out in win 11(some dialog box are not fully shown, texts being truncated etc..). Overall the content itself it still good as they are the basics to the FPGA world.

Ultimate course for FPGA learners those who want to understand complete process of FPGA design for Industry, education & research. Prof. Timothy Scherr and his team had put lot of efforts to make this course perfect. This course is helpful for newbie as well as professionals, As some points explained in this course covers lot of depth in field of FPGA for embedded system with simple explanation.

Thank very much Prof. Timothy Scherr and his teamand also coursera team for bringing such High quality education to all over the world.

The course is beyond as per the expectations!

The course "Introduction to FPGA Design for Embedded Systems" offered by colorado university is really a wonderful one, especially for the FPGA aspirants and beginners. the course provide a detail inside about the programmable logic devices. the best part was the hands-on practice of the design tool (Quartus Prime). The course flow is good and videos are descriptive. Special thanx to instructor prof. Timothy Scherr. he is a good teacher and his way of explanation is fantastic.

Fpga design is a vast jungle, tons of tools, design methodologies, terminologies, design patterns etc. This is just an introductory course that looks at the world of Fpga's through a birds eye view. But the information presented in this course is good enough to start from an intel perspective and apply this knowledge to other platforms like Xilinx or Microsemi. Btw, I also agree with other learners that a lot o cheating is happening in the peer reviewed assignments and something needs to be done about this matter!

Great course that directs you through the process of using EDA tools to create designs in your chosen FPGA. While this course focuses on Quartus Prime for Intel/Altera parts, the concepts could easily be applied to other environments. The instructor is easy to understand and follow and the videos ensure that you can keep up with the material. Especially if you have prior logic design knowledge (which you should if you're taking this course).

Great introduction to FPGA design. Just the right technical level and pace. I advise downloading the recommended tool version. I installed the latest and had to migrate the IP from the design files each time. The SOPC Edition text is a bit dated, might want to rent a Kindle version. I bought a dev board (DE10-Lite) but I think I could've gotten by just using the BeMicroMax10 design files, as we didn't actually program the board.

This Course is a good introduction to the FPGA flow in general not just for Altera. It will be very week for someone has previous experience in FPGA design. Regarding this scope, I think the course will be much better if there is a project at the end of course that help the learners coming through the whole flow on their own. I am looking forward to have advanced level for FPGA implementation.

A great introduction course for beginners who interested in FPGA design. Basically it covers almost all the use cases for Quartus software, to make students understand the tool, get familiar with the features provided by the tool. Also give students a brief understanding of the FPGA design flow. Overall a great course for beginners.

Very thorough and up to date with current industry standards of fpga selection criteria, timing analysis etc. Before learning this course, I really had no idea how could a person select an fpga for their specific task from an enormous catalogue but now I have somewhat developed a basic idea.

This course is the perfect blend that covers both theoretical and practical aspects of FPGA design methodology. Instructors are highly eminent and knowledgable. On successful completion of this course, I must recommend this course to those who want to start the journey in FPGA design.

Fantastic introduction to the Altera (I guess it's now Intel) tools for FPGA Design. As someone whose sole experience up until now has been with Xilinx Vivado: after this course, I feel that with some more practice, I feel I could be ready for a project targeted for an Altera device.

Really helpful course for one who aims to get started with FPGA since it covers from basic introduction to writing complex VHDL, Verilog codes for the design and how to simulate it using free software Quartus Prime Lite. Thank you for this course. Also the financial aid is available.

Very informative and well thought-out course. There are some minor glitches: a weekly assignment requests a screenshot that was not mentioned in the lecture video, it is not always clear where the required files have to be downloaded from. But overall, this is a high-quality course.

Very informative course, though quite tough as compared to other courses available in coursera. But, it gives quite depth of learning and hands on experience in Intel's Altera Quartus prime Design suite. Very must course if you are looking for career in digital designing.

Good content and study material , professors has explained everything very well , enjoyed a lot during this course and finally I can become a junior professional secret agent of FPGA designing putting my detective hat on my head and just like homes "the game is on "☺️

Excellent course for anyone starting out on FPGA (students and hobbyists alike).

1. Takes you through basic concepts of FPGA and helps you compare different FPGA's.

2. Gives you a quick glimpse on how to build a fairly complex system using reusable IP.

Excellent course! I didnt know anything about FPGAs before. After the course, I feel that I have an understanding of what they are, their importance and how to design FPGA systems on the Quartus Prime software! Thanks for such a wonderful course!

This course indeed very helpful and the course content is also practical and very thoughtfully design .I am sure whosoever will enroll for this course will definitely get benefited.

Thanks a lot to professor Timothy Scherr and his team.

Very clear explanation and neat presentation and I am thankful to Coursera to provide a such a nice course in FPGA well i will continue this specialization course these give me more intrest to learn it and work in it thank you Coursera

A month before , I enrolled for this course just out of curiosity. And today , I can confidently say that I have learned a lot about FPGAs and Digital Systems Design. It was a well-structured, challenging and fun-to-learn course.

The course was good when talked as a beginner. it provides the fruitful insight of all that is needed in the topic. the assignments were good and enhanced the practical approach of learning rather than just mugging up theory.

Awesome Course! Learned almost every aspects/options of Altera Quartus Prime software suite.

Got practical insight of Pipelining of complex digital circuits and effects of Clock/Signal buffering using Altera Max10 FPGA device

This course demystified a very intimidating topic for me, it was a very good and concise introduction to FPGAs. I will definitely use the skills learned in this course in my academic or professional career moving forward.

Mostly quality of online course and taught at university has differences. It can be seen from contents and length of program & labs as well. But this course is definitely different and high quality content! Many thanks