The NI Digital Electronics FPGA Board, based on the Xilinx Spartan-3E field-programmable gate array (FPGA), is an educational platform designed to help educators teach digital electronics design concepts. The board is fully programmable with both NI LabVIEW software and the LabVIEW FPGA Module as well as Xilinx ISE tools, so educators can teach digital electronics for all disciplines.
The board includes a prototyping area, where students can build their circuits, and features NI ELVIS II/II+ integration, which provides a complete instrumentation suite with 12 built-in instruments for building test benches with real-world signals to test FPGA designs. The board also includes the necessary peripherals such as LEDs, DIP switches, push buttons, seven-segment displays, and encoders for teaching digital electronics concepts.
Educators can download free curricula from ni.com/nielvis to use with LabVIEW and Xilinx ISE tools.
