As the electronic information and communication industry’s demand for talents in universities continues to increase, more and more attention is paid to practical abilities of university students. Therefore, universities need to carry out project-based learning to strengthen students’ practical abilities. Due to the problems of limited space and insufficient equipment in school laboratories, especially under the influence of the pandemic, conventional experiments using expensive and large equipment are no longer suitable. The students develop a portable electrical signal generator based on field programmable logic gate array to carry out project-based learning. The waveform is synthesized by direct digital synthesis Waveform switching and amplitude and frequency adjustment can be controlled by a hardware circuit. Lattice Diamond software is used for programming and simulation in experiments. This equipment and the development process not only improve students’ practical ability but also facilitate students’ independent learning.

Authors and Affiliations

1. School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China

   Zhi-Run Ye, Ming-Wei Wu, Hong-Wei Tao & Zheng Zhang

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Correspondence toMing-Wei Wu.

Editors and Affiliations

1. Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

   Wenxing Hong

2. Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

   Yang Weng

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