Dave Estes, a research and design engineer in the UNH-IOL's 10Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and Fast Ethernet consortiums took part in the December 2008 FPGA ((field-programmable gate arrays) Summit panel on the topic of end-user experience. Estes gave a brief introduction to one of the lab's unique FPGA tools and explained how students gain deep experience with the FPGA design environment as well as with the technology for which they are developing the test tool.