ProfRob

Hello, my name is Robert and I am a teacher (Professor) at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover/Germany. For the next semester I create a new lecture "Development of Digital Circuits" and I decided to emphasize and train the application of FPGAs and CPLDs. I'm just researching the different IDEs of several FPGA suppliers with the following requirements: independence from PC operating system (I mostly use UBUNTU and Linux Mint, seldom W10) free licenses to attract students to work at home with their own installation of the IDE available low cost development boards (student budgets are small in Germany) detailed documentation with background information and technical basics Till now, only the Xilinx environment seems to meet all my requirements. So I installed Vitis 2020.1, bought an ARTY A7 and now I am here. I think, I will make a lot of mistakes at the beginning and have to learn a lot. Beside this learning, I start to write a script for my students, so they hopefully get a usable description for programming their own devices.