> > This may seem obvious
> > but our problem is finding time in the curriculum to do this on top of
> > dealing with the real course content (processor architecture).
>
> Why is always a candy machine or a processor?
>
> -- Mike Treseler

In this course, yes, a processor but it's a course about processors so
I suppose it's legit. To our credit, in an intermediate course the
students here do an image decoder/encoder. The idea being they get
close to a real world FPGA application like MPEG decoding. Video would
be too much at that level, but still image processing that involve
colour space conversion, compression, etc is a good start.

Chris