A World Wide Web-Based Laboratory for Undergraduate Analog VLSI Design

基于万维网的本科生模拟 VLSI 设计实验室

• 批准号: 9650733
• 负责人: Robert Caverly
• 金额: $ 2.08万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650733&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: World; Wide; Web; Based; Laboratory

The World Wide Web's (WWW) current explosion in popularity and accessibility is shaping the way educational institutions provide future service to their students. At the present time, there is a sporadic, but growing, movement to provide WWW access to laboratories. This capability promises to provide those teaching undergraduate-level courses the ability to access truly state-of-the-art educational facilities from distant locations, with little or no additional cost to the distant campus. This project centers around the development of an undergraduate web-based laboratory in the area of analog integrated circuit design and testing. The plan is to develop a suite of automated instrumentation to be used for measuring the characteristics of the prefabricated analog integrated circuit in several undergraduate level laboratories. The instrumentation is controlled and the measurement results transmitted over the WWW. The equipment acquired to implement this instrumentation suite is a personal computer controller (featuring an interface to the WWW), a GPIB-controlled signal analyzer, a function generator, a programmable power supply, a frequency counter, a digital storage oscilloscope, and a high-frequency digital multimeter. The instrumentation is being controlled in a similar fashion as the current senior laboratory equipment at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, which is based on a similar equipment suite.

万维网（WWW）目前在普及和可访问性方面的爆炸性增长正在塑造教育机构向学生提供未来服务的方式。目前，有一个零星的，但不断增长的运动，提供WWW访问实验室。这种能力有望为那些教授本科生课程的人提供从遥远的地方访问真正先进的教育设施的能力，而对遥远的校园几乎没有额外的费用。该项目围绕模拟集成电路设计和测试领域的本科生基于网络的实验室的发展。该计划是开发一套自动化仪器，用于测量预制模拟集成电路的特性，在几个本科水平的实验室。仪器被控制，测量结果通过WWW传输。获得的设备来实现这个仪器套件是一个个人计算机控制器（具有一个接口到WWW），GPIB控制的信号分析仪，函数发生器，可编程电源，频率计数器，数字存储示波器，和高频数字示波器。这些仪器的控制方式与马萨诸塞州达特茅斯大学目前的高级实验室设备类似，后者是基于类似的成套设备。