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Teaching hardware description languages to satisfy industry expectations Garrison W. Greenwood Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA E-mail: greenwd@ Abstract Industry demands that computer engineers have expertise in FPGA prototyping. A broad knowledge of a hardware description language (HDL) such as Verilog or VHDL is no longer suffi cient. Industry expects engineers to write RTL-synthesizable code. Unfortunately, many colleges do not teach this material because the HDL is taught as a secondary topic in a digital design course. That approach does not allow suffi cient time to cover effi cient coding practices, the use of third-party IP and other essential topics. This paper describes an FPGA prototyping course, based on the Verilog HDL, that is completely separate from any digital design course. The prototyping course is supplemented with FPGA vendor application notes, uses industry-standard EDA tools and fully meets industry expectations. Keywords hardware description languages; prototyping, RTL, synthesis; teaching digital design In today’s job market industry expects computer engineering graduates to know a hardware description language (HDL) and to have hands-on experience with field programmable gate array (FPGA) designs. Some exposure to electronic design automation (EDA) tools – preferably those already widely used in industry – is highly desirable because it shortens the learning curve for newly hired recent International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education 46/3 graduates. Unfortunately, many college courses that claim to teach HDLs and FPGA design fall far short of achieving what industry wants. Industry doesn’t want people who just have some familiarity with VHDL or Verilog, it wants people wh