Undergraduate Laboratory Development for Computer Architecture and Real-Time Embedded Systems

计算机体系结构和实时嵌入式系统本科实验室开发

• 批准号: 9750516
• 负责人: Yann-Hang Lee
• 金额: $ 2.99万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-06-01 至 1999-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9750516&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Laboratory; Development; Computer; Architecture

To project its computer engineering education program for the needs in the 21st century, the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) department is developing a curriculum enhancement plan. The plan calls for an emphasis on system design and integration methodologies that include the use of computer-aided design (CAD) tools, hardware prototyping with field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), and hardware/software co-design. In the center of the plan, an undergraduate computer hardware design and real-time embedded systems laboratory is established. The new laboratory consists of PC workstations for hardware design and implementation, as well as for embedded system development. Included also are CAD tools, FPGA rapid-prototyping systems, test instruments, and other necessary laboratory instruments. An existing undergraduate computer architecture course can be restructured to take advantage of the new laboratory. Laboratory projects, based on FPGA devices and PCs PCI bus platform, enable students to gain hands-on experience in designing key architecture components. A new course on real-time embedded system design can be added into the curriculum. Using the laboratory facilities, the students can revise a real-time kernel, implement real-time servers and device drivers, and design embedded systems for data acquisition and I/O control. This new laboratory and curriculum improvement plan can be vital to the computer engineering program of the CISE Department which had no existing hardware design facility. The department is firmly committed to strengthen the hardware development and hardware/software co-design components and to continually incorporate leading technology into its curriculum. All Computer Engineering students can use the laboratory effectively, learn practical design approaches, and thus be well prepared to undertake system design tasks in the coming century.

为了规划其计算机工程教育计划，以满足21世纪的需求，计算机信息科学工程（CISE）部门正在制定一项课程改进计划。 该计划要求强调系统设计和集成方法，包括使用计算机辅助设计工具、现场可编程门阵列硬件原型设计和硬件/软件协同设计。 在该计划的中心，一个本科计算机硬件设计和实时嵌入式系统实验室成立。 新实验室包括用于硬件设计和实施以及嵌入式系统开发的PC工作站。 还包括CAD工具，FPGA快速原型系统，测试仪器和其他必要的实验室仪器。 现有的本科计算机体系结构课程可以重组，以利用新的实验室。 基于FPGA器件和PC PCI总线平台的实验室项目，使学生能够获得设计关键架构组件的实践经验。 可以在课程中增加一门新的实时嵌入式系统设计课程。 使用实验室设施，学生可以修改实时内核，实现实时服务器和设备驱动程序，并设计用于数据采集和I/O控制的嵌入式系统。 这个新的实验室和课程改进计划可以是至关重要的CISE部门没有现有的硬件设计设施的计算机工程计划。 该部门坚定地致力于加强硬件开发和硬件/软件协同设计组件，并不断将领先的技术纳入其课程。 所有计算机工程专业的学生都可以有效地利用实验室，学习实用的设计方法，从而为承担下一个世纪的系统设计任务做好准备。