Use of FPGA Hardware Emulator and VHDL to Teach Digital Design

9452593 Perkowski这个项目涉及可编程有源存储器的使用，这是一种基于查找表现场可编程门阵列技术的廉价硬件仿真器/可重构计算机的商业原型。这允许加强课程中已经存在的主题。此外，它还允许将硬件仿真、可重构计算、脉动处理器、元胞自动机及其VHDL语言高级硬件描述等新主题引入到几门本科课程中。快速原型技术使学生能够更多地专注于设计的概念阶段，而不是平凡的阶段。学生的动机是学习建立更复杂的实际使用系统。这些课程主题通过实验室演示、常规实验和一年级、二年级和三年级的项目教授给所有电气工程和计算机工程专业的学生。希望专攻数字设计(特别是机器人)和通信的学生可以选择各自的高级课程序列和相关的顶尖设计项目，并使用快速系统原型技术来实施更先进的系统。

9452593 Perkowski This project involves the use of a Programmable Active Memory (PAM), the commercially-available prototype of the inexpensive hardware emulator/reconfigurable computer built in lookup-table FPGA technology. This allows the enhancement of topics already present in the curriculum. Moreover, it allows the introduction into several undergraduate classes the new topics of hardare emulation, reconfigurable computing, systolic processors, cellular automata, and their high-level hardware description in language VHDL. Fast prototyping technology allows students to concentrate more on the conceptual phases of design and not mundane ones. Students are motivated to learn to build more sophisticated systems of practical use. These curricular topics are taught to all Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering majors through laboratory demonstrations, regular experiments, and projects in the freshman, sophomore and junior years. Students wishing to specialize in digital design (particularly robotics) and communications, may take respective senior course sequences and associated capstone design projects and use the fast system prototyping technology to implement more advanced systems.