Vicilogic: Linking Online Learning, Assessment and Prototyping with Remote FPGA Hardware

摘要: Vicilogic links online learning, assessment, and prototyping with remote Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware. Vicilogic provides online training and practice in digital systems design, RISC-V computer architecture and applications, and FPGA-based data and pixel processing applications. The Vicilogic course browser interacts with transparently with an array of remote FPGA, controlling and probing real remote hardware signals. This enables presentation of a visually rich, interactive learn-by-doing pedagogy, supporting guided learning, self-paced training, component sandboxes, knowledge checks, automated hardware application execution demos and remote FPGA prototyping. The Vicilogic course builder provides course tutors with the facility to create new course modules and to select individual lessons to create a tailored, indexed course to align with their curriculum.This paper presents the …