arXiv:2611.11741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many digital systems courses teach on FPGA boards whose vendor tool is no longer maintained: the Digilent Basys2 and Nexys2 (Xilinx Spartan-3E) and Nexys3 and Atlys (Spartan-6) need Xilinx ISE 14.7, discontinued since 2013 and hard to install on the computers and tablets students use today. The author presents Silinx, a free (AGPL-3.0) HDL design platform for teaching that keeps ISE's Project Navigator workflow but runs in a web browser with nothing to install.
Computer Science · 2026-11-10
Silinx: An Open, Browser-Based HDL Design Platform for Teaching Digital Systems on FPGA Boards
arXiv:2611.11741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many digital systems courses teach on FPGA boards whose vendor tool is no longer maintained: the Digilent Basys2 and Nexys2 (Xilinx Spartan-3E) and Nexys3 and Atlys (Spartan-6) need Xilinx ISE 14.7, discontinued since 2013 and hard to install on the computers and tablets students use today.
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