Digital Logic Curriculum Resources

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Use ISE™ Foundation™ software and associated resources to develop labs covering fundamental and advanced digital logic courses.

Access Digital Logic IP cores
Access ISE Reference Designs
Access Application Notes
Access Teaching Materials
Download Academic Course Materials
Check out Interesting Research Projects

Access Digital Logic IP Cores

ISE Foundation includes free Xilinx IP cores useful for digital logic labs. These cores are delivered through Core Generator and can be instantiated in schematic, VHDL, or Verilog designs.

Useful Core Generator IP Cores
Product Name/Type	Description
Basic Elements	Comparators, Counters, Encoders & Decoders, Logic Gates and Buffers, Memory Elements, Multiplexors, Registers, Shifters & Pipelining
Math Functions	Accumulators, Adders & Subtractors, Comparators, Conversions, CORDIC, Dividers, Floating Point, Multipliers, Multiply Accumulators, Sine-Cosine Look-Up table
Memories and Storage Elements	Single-port Block Memory, Dual-port Block Memory

Access ISE Reference Designs

Free reference designs useful for digital logic courses that are included in the ISE software.

ISE Example Designs
Description	Source Type
Elevator design using partitions	Verilog
Frequency meter	VHDL
XAPP 217: Gold code converter	VHDL/Verilog
Bi-directional 4-bit Johnson Counter with stop control	VHDL/Verilog
XAPP 211: PN Generator using Virtex SRL Macro	VHDL/Verilog
Pong game control for the 3S200 Demo board	VHDL/Verilog
Stop watch design	Verilog/VHDL

Access useful Xilinx Application Notes

Xilinx application notes cover topics ranging from FPGA resource usage to application examples. The links
below provide direct access to application notes for supported XUP board device families

Access Teaching Materials

Access text books and materials for teaching courses using Xilinx.

Xilinx Design Series of text books
IMEC Lab Exercises targeting the XUP Virtex-II Pro

Download Course Materials

Listed below are Universities that post lecture notes and/or lab exercises on their course websites
to share with the academic community.

Online Academic Course Materials
University	Course Name/Number
Eastern Washington University	EE360:Hardware Description Languages
MIT	6.111:Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory
San Jose State University	EE178:Digital Design with FPGAs
Stanford University	EE108a: Digital Systems I
Stanford University	EE108b: Digital Systems II
Stanford University	EE109b: Digital Systems Lab
University of Arizona	ECE274:Digital Logic
University of Arizona	ECE474A/574A: Computer-Aided Logic Design
University of Toronto	ECE532S: Digital Systems Design
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	ECE574:Modeling and Synthesis of digital systems using Verilog and VHDL

Interesting Research Projects

Learn how Universities are using the latest Xilinx technology in research.

Open Source JHDL is a set of FPGA CAD tools developed at Brigham Young University's Configurable
Computing Laboratory that allows the user to design the structure and layout of a circuit, debug the
circuit in simulation, netlist and interface for bit-stream synthesis, and so forth. It is an exploratory
attempt to identify the key features and functionality of good FPGA tools.