Proposal

Narrative

2023 EECS FPGA Trainers The College of Engineering is committed to providing our students with as many technological skills as possible. Not only will this boost the students’ confidence, it will expose them to the type of equipment they will be expected to operate beyond the classroom. This proposal will provide the faculty with the necessary equipment to better prepare the students while simultaneously positioning the students for success in their chosen field(s). Additionally, this equipment is needed to maintain FAU’s ABET accreditation which takes into account equipment relevance. Specifically, we are continuing to upgrade the labs: We are adding more training boards for the CDA 4240C Design of Digital Systems Class We propose to furnish equipment for an additional thirty students per semester. DIGILENT 410-292 Development Board, FPGA, Nexys4 DDR, 32bit, Artix-7, Trainer Board, Recommended for ECE Curriculum is $350 each. Including other tools, parts, modules and supplies to support the project. 30 units x $350 = $10500. The Tech fee request is for $10,500. The Artix-7 field programmable gate array (FPGA) from Xilinx®, the Nexys A7 is a ready-to-use digital circuit development platform designed to bring additional industry applications into the classroom environment. The Artix-7 FPGA is optimized for high-performance logic, and offers more capacity, higher performance, and more resources than earlier designs. With its large, high-capacity FPGA and collection of USB, Ethernet, and other ports, the Nexys A7 can host designs ranging from introductory combinational circuits to powerful embedded processors. Several built-in peripherals, including an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, MEMs digital microphone, speaker amplifier, and plenty of I/O devices allow the Nexys A7 to be used for a wide range of designs without needing any other components.

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Timeline

upon award

Sustainability

EECS has purchased many units, this is to supply additional units for continued class enrollment.

Resource Matching

EECS has purchased many units, this is to supply additional units for continued class enrollment.

Implementing Organization

EECS