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

南卡罗来纳大学正在基于Xilinx大学项目(XUP)关于嵌入式系统设计的教授研讨会开发嵌入式系统设计课程材料。在目前的形式下，Xup材料通过为期两天的研讨会交付给已经了解嵌入式系统概念的在职专业人员。该项目正在扩大XUP内容的范围，以便向本科生提供这门课程。嵌入式系统设计的本科生实验材料为学生提供了广泛的动手机会，以提高他们在使用现场可编程门阵列(现场可编程门阵列)技术设计当前和下一代嵌入式系统时的知识和对先进概念和原理的理解。与片上系统(SOC)技术相比，FPGA设计具有设计周期短、成本低、学习曲线平滑等优点。此外，FPGA设备是可编程和可重复编程的，这使得它们在整个实验室实践中都可以重复使用，并且是测试和研究不同设计替代方案的优秀设备。因此，在本科生的嵌入式系统设计课程中，基于知识产权(IP)的应用系统的构建，采用现场可编程门阵列(FPGA)比采用SOC方法更合适。现场可编程门阵列器件在工业嵌入式系统设计中也变得越来越受欢迎，在工业嵌入式系统设计中，它们通常被用来开发一项“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流程为学生提供了技能和经验，当他们开始在全球劳动力市场竞争时，这些技能和经验可以很容易地应用。

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.