Digilent announced some interesting Academic tools that would nice to have for the budding Engineer Student or person interested in such subjects.
The first is the Analog Discovery Studio which is a portable laboratory for students
The Analog Discovery Studio offers:
- Analog Inputs
- Analog Outputs
- Digital Inputs and Outputs
- Power Supplies
Software:
- WaveForms Software Development Kit (SDK)
- Languages: Python, C++, C# and Visual Basic
Release Data:
- May 31st, 2019
Price
- $599.00 US
The other item is Teaching Computer Architecture with FPGA Boards- Harris & Harris.
Just in time for Summer, Digilent has partnered with Sarah Harris, once of the authors of Digital Design and Computer Architecture, and Imagination Technologies from Harvey Mudd College to produce a course that offers students comprehensive course work along with a flexible Digilent Nexys A7 Artix-7 FPGA Trainer board to learn Computer Architecture as well as integrated systems. I've used the Harris&Harris for a course with the UC Irvine Embedded Systems Engineering Certificate but used the Basys 2. The Nexys A7 offers many more options.
Links to the book, hardware recommendations and Videos are available on the Diligent product site.
Analog Discovery 2 Pro Bundle $20 off - $279.00 US