Integrating Asynchronous Digital Design and Testing into the Undergraduate Computer Engineering Curriculum

工程-计算机（32）该项目通过开发材料，将异步概念轻松整合到现有的数字系统课程结构中，从而改善教育实践和学生学习。由于对提高电路鲁棒性、降低功耗和缓解许多与时钟相关的问题的需求开始引起从同步到异步设计风格的转变，因此将此材料引入计算机工程课程变得非常重要。 该项目正在开发课堂讲稿，示例问题，小组项目，基本异步组件的VHDL库，以及基本异步组件的各种模型。 它正在将这些材料整合到两个本科/研究生课程中：一个是用VHDL进行数字系统建模，另一个是VLSI设计。 这一项目的成果正通过适当的会议介绍和期刊出版物传播，有关材料可在网上和光盘上查阅，并通过微电子系统通讯进行宣传。 专门设计的与学习目标相匹配的非学分测试和测验被用来评估学生的学习情况，标准的机构问卷被用来描述学生对材料的态度。 另一个机构的一位同事正在作为外部内容专家对材料进行正式审查。通过各种出版物和张贴物传播材料，使该项目产生了更广泛的影响。

Engineering - Computer (32)This project is improving educational practices and student learning through development of materials that provide for easy integration of asynchronous concepts into existing digital systems course structures. Since demands to increase circuit robustness, decrease power consumption, and alleviate many clock-related issues are starting to cause a shift from synchronous to asynchronous design styles, introducing this material into the computer engineering curriculum is becoming extremely important. The project is developing lecture notes, example problems, group projects, VHDL libraries of fundamental asynchronous components, and various models of fundamental asynchronous components. It is integrating these materials into two undergraduate/graduate-level courses: one on digital system modeling with VHDL and one on VLSI design. The results of this project are being disseminated through appropriate conference presentations and journal publications and the material is available on the web and on a CD-ROM and this availability is being advertised through a microelectronic systems newsletter. Specially designed non-credit tests and quizzes matched to the learning objectives are being used to evaluate student learning, and standard institutional questionnaires are being used to characterize the students' attitudes about the material. A colleague at another institution is conducting a formal review of the material as an external content expert. The broader impacts of the project are resulting from the dissemination of the materials through various publications and postings.