Use of FPGA Hardware Emulator and VHDL to Teach Digital Design

9452593 Perkowski这个项目涉及到可编程主动存储器（PAM）的使用，这是一种廉价的硬件模拟器/可重构计算机的商业原型，内置查找表FPGA技术。这可以加强课程中已经存在的主题。此外，它还允许在几个本科课程中引入硬件仿真、可重构计算、收缩处理器、细胞自动机等新主题，以及用VHDL语言描述它们的高级硬件。快速原型技术允许学生更多地专注于设计的概念阶段，而不是世俗的阶段。学生们被激励去学习构建更复杂的实用系统。所有电气工程和计算机工程专业的学生在大一、大二和大三通过实验室演示、常规实验和项目来教授这些课程主题。希望专攻数字设计（尤其是机器人）和通信的学生，可以选择各自的高级课程序列和相关的顶点设计项目，并使用快速系统原型技术来实现更先进的系统。

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.