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The last decade has experienced an increase interest on reconfigurable computing (RC). This evolution were boosted by FPGAs which have grown from simple glue logic elements to complex devices able to implement several complex hardware applications and be partially and dynamic reconfigured at run-time. Despite the high number of courses offered in the last years in reconfigurable computing, we could not find a course covering all aspects of reconfiguration. The large majority of reconfigurable computing course are limited to FPGA programming. This is in part due to the fact that no textbook actually exists in this area. In this paper, we present our experience in providing a course in RC from the scratch. Our goal in designing this course is to provide a strong theoretically and practical background to students by covering all aspects of RC as usually reflected in conferences and industry. Therefore, our course is a mixture of theory and practical exercises to be done in lab.

This paper describes a seminar of a project group consisting of students that realizes a code generation from UML to a reconfigurable hardware platform. The usage of high-level modeling is nowadays essential in the software and in the hardware development. The reason for this is the complexity the industries have to cope with. The idea to specify a hardware system at such a high abstraction level should be realized for a given application within the project group. By dealing with the application the students learn to use these new development methods for system design, especially hardware design. Furthermore, an overview of the structure and organization of project groups are given.