Intro

Technology is becoming more complex every day.
Devices get smaller, integration gets higher
As such, it has become harder to actually understand how the devices work.
80s, you could open your PC and start probing signals on the mainboard to understand which instructions a CPU executed. These days, pretty much everything can be integrated into a single chip and the actual functionality is built in software.
One example of such a highly integrated component is the FPGA.
FPGAs essentially allow the designer to create large digital designs inside of an IC.
As these designs are created by writing software-like source code, one might easily forget the fact that what is created is, indeed, a digital circuit.
There is no PCB, no components, but also no visibility of the individual building blocks and connections between them.
To aid students learning about FPGAs better understand the technology, this project aims to provide a platform to look at the inner workings of such a chip by breaking it out of the IC and bringing it onto a PCB where every signal can be traced and measured.