An Evolving Curriculum to Match the Evolution of Reconfigurable Computing Platforms Graham Schelle, Dan Fay, Dirk Grunwald, Daniel A. Connors and John Bennett The 1st International Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing Education (RC education 2006). March, 2006. Reconfigurable platforms have evolved from ``sea of gates'' architectures into diverse System on a Chip (SoC) platforms with embedded processor cores and dedicated hardware components. This evolution has greatly increased the performance of this technology, but creates challenges when teaching the new technology to Computer Science and Electrical Engineering graduate students. Previously, knowledge of Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) was the only prerequisite for advanced courses in reconfigurable computing, but now knowledge of embedded processors, complex tool suites, and hardware/software co-design form the basic foundation of education in this field. At the University of Colorado at Boulder we have partnered with Xilinx, a leading manufacturer of FPGAs, and endeavored to create a curriculum that addresses these challenges. Through a graduate level embedded systems course that hybridizes microprocessor-based software with dedicated hardware and various seminar courses on reconfigurable computing, we have been able to observe how students best learn subject matter in this area and what subject matter they find challenging. In this paper, we describe our experience teaching reconfigurable computing with an emphasis on programmable SoC design. [ PDF ]