We had a class like this at my school (LTH in Sweden) and it was probably the most enlightening school experience I've had.
We started the first week with a handful of diodes and resistors building latches, and slowly built an adder, memory, a calculator and by the end eventually ended up with a programmable traffic light computer.
They were also phasing in FPGAs in the education so you could pick between breadboarding everything or doing it in software with an FPGA or even a mix. Very very fun.
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We had a class like this at my school (LTH in Sweden) and it was probably the most enlightening school experience I've had.
We started the first week with a handful of diodes and resistors building latches, and slowly built an adder, memory, a calculator and by the end eventually ended up with a programmable traffic light computer.
They were also phasing in FPGAs in the education so you could pick between breadboarding everything or doing it in software with an FPGA or even a mix. Very very fun.