The paper describes the emerging potential and flexible properties of reconfigurable computing in education of engineers and students, as well as of technicians of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, an FPGA-course currently under development at Darmstadt University of Technology is outlined. The dedicated structure and contents cover an introduction into reconfigurable computing and its applications, cost/performance trade-offs (e.g. for small companies), fine-/coarsegrained and hybrid device architectures, overview on vendors and corresponding design tools and the structural programming process including examples from different areas.
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