Digital system design options and trade-offs, Design methodology and technology overview, High Level System 9 Architecture and Specification: Behavioral modeling and simulation, Overview of FPGA architectures and technologies, Logic block architecture, Input and Output cell characteristics, clock input, Timing, Power dissipation, Programmable interconnect, Applications, Embedded system design using FPGAs, Dynamic architecture using FPGAs, reconfigurable systems, application case studies, Simulation / implementation exercises of combinational, sequential and DSP kernels on Xilinx / Altera boards.