“Whether you just like to tinker in your garage or you work with them professionally, knowing how to use and program FPGAs is a definite plus for anybody. The problem is that every company that makes FPGAs has their own proprietary software that you have to have in order to use the FPGA board. Luckily National Instruments has made it possible to program many Digilent FPGA boards without having to leave the familiar and ubiquitous Multisim environment. It takes some work to do the initial set up, but once everything is all set up correctly, you’ll be programming FPGAs in no time.”