In 1997 we changed the whole curriculum of our department.
And we set up two courses of the VLSI design seminar for
a few hundreds students. For the courses we also designed
a FPGA training system.

In these courses, the students will learn many phases of VLSI design
such as LSI layout, circuit simulation and high level digital design
with PARTHENON.

In this report, we describe the FPGA training system and
the philosophy of the courses design.
We are now evaluating the courses with 30 students.