Design and implementation of a new PCB daughterboard for KTH’s FPGA based courses

Sammanfattning: This project focused on creating a PCB prototype to work with KTH's newly purchased FPGAs. This PCB is meant to be used to expand the FPGA's IO, as it did not have enough LEDs or switches to be used in some courses at the Embedded Systems program at KTH. An original design for the PCBs existed before this thesis was started, but it needed to be developed to meet the new requirements. Several prototypes were developed by first designing the PCB in KiCad. The design in KiCad then formed the basis for the physical prototype, which was milled out before the components could be soldered. The final functional prototype was approximately the size of the FPGA board and was connected to it by the FPGA's GPIO extension pins. The result of this thesis was a prototype that fulfilled the requirements and was ready for production.