Use of electronic design automation tools in computer engineering courses

Abstract

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools are widely used semiconductor industry to support the ever-growing complexity of computer design, and they became an important skill which is required by computer engineers. In this paper, we present the usage of the EDA Playground web platform for practical exercise in the Digital systems design course at the computer engineering department of the Faculty of technical sciences. This platform was used in process of designing and testing of program counter register of a simple processor.