CCLI: Novel Instructional Material Development for Embedded System Education in the Undergraduate Computer Engineering Curriculum

CCLI：本科计算机工程课程嵌入式系统教育的新型教学材料开发

• 批准号: 0633641
• 负责人: Gang Quan
• 金额: $ 14.98万
• 依托单位: University South Carolina Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-03-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0633641&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCLI; Novel; Instructional; Material; Development

The University of South Carolina is developing embedded system design course materials based on the Xilinx University Program (XUP) Professor Workshops on embedded system design. In their current form, XUP materials are delivered through 2-day workshops to working professionals who already understand embedded system concepts. This project is expanding the scope of the XUP content in order to deliver the course to undergraduate students.The undergraduate laboratory materials in embedded system design are providing students with extensive hands-on opportunities to enhance their knowledge and understanding of advanced concepts and principles in designing current and next-generation embedded systems using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. Compared to System-On-a-Chip (SOC) technologies, FPGA design has a much short design cycle, lower cost, and a smoother learning curve. In addition, FPGA devices are programmable and reprogrammable, which makes them reusable throughout the lab practices and excellent devices to test and investigate different design alternatives. As a result, FPGA devices are more suitable than SOC methodologies to build Intellectual Property (IP) based application-specific systems in an undergraduate embedded system design course. FPGA devices are also becoming increasingly popular in industrial embedded system designs where they are often used to develop a piece of "core" functionality, which can then be sold as an IP component. Therefore, learning to use the tools and design processes for FPGA based embedded systems is providing students with skills and experiences that can be readily applied when they begin to compete in the global labor force.

南卡罗来纳大学正在基于Xilinx大学项目（XUP）嵌入式系统设计教授研讨会开发嵌入式系统设计课程材料。在目前的形式中，XUP材料通过2天的研讨会交付给已经了解嵌入式系统概念的工作专业人员。这个项目正在扩展XUP内容的范围，以便将课程交付给本科生。嵌入式系统设计的本科实验材料为学生提供了广泛的实践机会，以增强他们对使用现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）技术设计当前和下一代嵌入式系统的先进概念和原理的知识和理解。与片上系统（SOC）技术相比，FPGA设计具有更短的设计周期、更低的成本和更平滑的学习曲线。此外，FPGA设备是可编程和可重新编程的，这使得它们在整个实验室实践中可重复使用，并且是测试和研究不同设计替代方案的优秀设备。因此，在本科嵌入式系统设计课程中，FPGA器件比SOC方法更适合构建基于知识产权（IP）的特定应用系统。FPGA设备在工业嵌入式系统设计中也变得越来越流行，它们通常用于开发一块“核心”功能，然后可以作为IP组件出售。因此，学习使用基于FPGA的嵌入式系统的工具和设计过程为学生提供了技能和经验，当他们开始在全球劳动力中竞争时，可以很容易地应用。