Hands-on Experience with Altera FPGA Development Boards (PDF)

Dr. Jivan Shrikrishna Parab is Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics at Goa University, India. He completed his PhD from the same university with the thesis titled "Development of Novel Embedded DSP Architecture for Non-Invasive Glucose Analysis". He received his M.Sc. (2005) and (2003) B.Sc. in electronics degree from Goa University. He has co-authored two books, published by Springer. The details of the books are: Practical aspects of embedded system design using microcontrollers and Exploring C for Microcontrollers: A hands on Approach. He has published several papers in National and International level journals and conferences.

Dr. Rajendra S. Gad is Associate Professor of Electronics at Goa University. He received B.Sc. (Physics) and M.Sc. (Electronics) degrees from Goa University in 1995 and 1997 respectively. He completed his PhD. in Electronics in 2009 from the same institute. He has several papers published in journal and conference proceedings to his credit. His areas of interest are Biomedical Sensors, DSP Digital Repositories and Networks. He has been into teaching and taught courses such as VLSI System design, HDL System design, Digital Signal Processing, Computer Programming, Operating System, Mechatronics, and Electronics Practical.

Dr. G.M. Naik is professor and head of Department of Electrics at Goa University. Dr. Naik's areas of interest are Fiber Optics & Sensors, Opto-electronics, Renewable energy sources  and Biomedical Instrumentation. He completed his PhD. (Opto-electronics) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1987. He received B.Sc. (Physics, Chemistry and Maths) and M.Sc. (Applied Electronics) degrees from Karnatak University in 1978 and 1980 respectively. Dr. Naik has co-authored 2 books entitled "Practical aspects of embedded system design using microcontrollers" and "Exploring C for Microcontrollers: A hands on Approach" published by Springer. He has several papers published in journal and conference