Teach Digital Design with FPGAs using a remote Terasic DE1-SoC!

In this laboratory, students can learn how to work with Hardware Design Languages: VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog. Then they can test their code in a real Terasic DE1-SoC FPGA. The FPGA has a set of components and peripherals already in place, such as 10 red LEDs, 6 7-segment displays and multiple clocks. In addition, you will have access to 10 virtual switches and 4 virtual buttons that you can use in your design and that you will be able to interact with when controlling the real hardware. This way, you will be able to turn on and off the switches or press the buttons and see how your design behaves. The boards are located in different universities and institutions around the world, as you will see when using each board.

This laboratory will let you learn basic Digital Electronics.

You will be able to design Combinational Systems, use Boole Algebra, create VK diagrams, and try the systems that you create in real remote hardware (Intel FPGAs).

With this laboratory, you can program a real Arduino UNO board. It also includes input and output peripherals, similar to those that are often included in Arduino starter kits. 

Those peripherals include LEDs, switches, buttons, an OLED display, a servo motor, etc.

There are two ways to use this laboratory:

• Code editor: write C code, compile it online and send it to the Arduino board.

• Blockly editor: write a code in a visual programming language, compile it online and send it to the Arduino board.

The LabsLand Arduino Robot laboratory lets you carry out experiments with a real robot. Define the robot's logic, and then upload your program into the robot to see its behavior through a web camera. You can make your robot avoid walls, compete in line-following races, or do any other type of exercise.

There are two ways to use this laboratory:

• Code editor: write C code, compile it online and send it to the Arduino robot.

• Blockly editor: write a code in a visual programming language, compile it online and send it to the Arduino robot.

With this laboratory you can program and control a ST WB55RG Nucleo board. It also includes various input and output peripherals, similar to those that are often used in introductory IoT and microcontroller programming courses.

The technical specification for the laboratory is the following:

• Features the STMicroelectronics' Nucleo WB55RG board.

• Supports various programming environments:

  • Fully web-based LabsLand online IDE.

  • Online "mbed" Compiler by ARM.

  • Keil Studio Cloud

  • Standard offline toolchains such as STM32CubeProgrammerIDE, Keil Studio or GCC-ARM based toolchains

• Supports programming different modes for low-energy consumption, perfect for low-energy computing courses.

• Supports current monitoring capabilities, so that users can compare consumption for different algorithms, peripheral usage, and energy consumption modes.

• Emulated input peripherals:

  • Switches

  • Buttons

  • Potentiometers

  • Advanced devices (e.g. N8 controller)

• Output peripherals:

  • 3x LEDs

  • RGB LED

  • Servo Motor

  • LCD Screen

• Support for Virtual Environments (controlled with the real hardware for advanced scenarios, learning activities and simulations)

  • Parking Lot automation