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The importance of incorporating hardware description languages in teaching the students of computer science and engineering the course of digital logic design and similar courses has always been emphasised by teachers and educators of the filed.
The state-of-the-art reveals several works addressing the subject in depth. For example, (Huang et al., 1997), talk about a pilot VHDL teaching resources that have been suggested to cope with the availability of VHDL tools and class educational resources that agree with the computer architecture course syllabus. In (Etxebarria et al., 2001), authors built a workbench board integrating VHDL that aids in reinforcing the theoretical knowledge of students on digital design, practise design and simulation, in addition to observe the actual behaviour of programmable logic devices (PLDs).
In (Amaral et al., 2005), the authors discuss how the state-of-the art digital logic design tools can be very useful for the students of computer science. In (Boluda et al., 2006), the authors showed how to improve active in-class engagement of students in addition to leveraging self-learning of electronic systems design, in general, and programmable logic devices (PLDs) in specific. The paper included pictures of the ALTERA UP1 and MEPUA1 boards through power point lectures available on the Internet.