Collaborative Research: Integrating Time-Oriented Embedded System Programming into a Computing Curriculum

协作研究：将面向时间的嵌入式系统编程集成到计算课程中

• 批准号: 0836905
• 负责人: Frank Vahid
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-01 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0836905&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Integrating; Time; Oriented

Computer Science (31)This project develops a coordinated set of materials for integrating time-oriented embedded system programming into a computing curriculum. The project develops materials describing a disciplined approach to time-oriented programming that emphasizes the use of state machines for computation and the explicit programmer management of time, described in teaching materials including an online book and extensively animated PowerPoint slides. Recognizing the key barriers to focusing on a disciplined approach, the project develops a virtual microcontroller, which is freed from the complex details of modern microcontrollers stemming from legacy or mass-production concerns, and which instead possesses simple input and output pins and a basic timer component with an intuitive programming interface. The virtual microcontroller is supported by a single compilation, simulation, and debug environment, eliminating the complexity involved with setting up and maintaining microcontroller tools. The teaching material is based on the virtual microcontroller, and a set of online lab exercises is also included. For physical implementation, the virtual microcontroller can be mapped to a variety of existing microcontrollers or even to PCs or field-programmable gate arrays, thus decoupling lab hardware from teaching materials. Follow-on courses or labs can then introduce students to low level details of microcontrollers as appropriate.The project's developed materials define and support the appropriate abstraction for disciplined time-oriented programming, exposing low-level resources necessary for a solid bottom-up understanding of time-oriented programming (timers, interrupt service routines, processor cycles), hiding minutia that detracts attention from higher-level concepts, describing a disciplined synchronous state machine approach. The coordinated materials enable any instructor to introduce disciplined time-oriented embedded programming into a computing curriculum as early as the freshmen year without concern for complex lab setups or of overwhelming students with low-level hardware/software details. The net result is that disciplined time-oriented programming methods can be introduced earlier and to a larger audience.

计算机科学（31）该项目开发了一套协调的材料，用于将面向时间的嵌入式系统编程整合到计算课程中。该项目开发了材料，描述了一种纪律处分的定向编程方法，该方法强调了使用状态机进行计算和明确的时间管理时间管理的材料，该方法在教材中描述了包括在线书籍和广泛动画的PowerPoint幻灯片中的时间。该项目认识到专注于纪律处分的方法的关键障碍，开发了一个虚拟的微控制器，该微控制器摆脱了来自遗产或大规模生产问题的现代微控制器的复杂细节，而其具有简单的输入和输出销和具有直觉编程界面的基本计时器组件。虚拟微控制器由单个汇编，仿真和调试环境支持，从而消除了设置和维护微控制器工具所涉及的复杂性。该教材基于虚拟微控制器，还包括一组在线实验室练习。为了进行物理实现，可以将虚拟微控制器映射到各种现有的微控制器，甚至可以映射到PC或现场可编程的门阵列，从而将实验室硬件从教材料中解除。 Follow-on courses or labs can then introduce students to low level details of microcontrollers as appropriate.The project's developed materials define and support the appropriate abstraction for disciplined time-oriented programming, exposing low-level resources necessary for a solid bottom-up understanding of time-oriented programming (timers, interrupt service routines, processor cycles), hiding minutia that detracts attention from higher-level concepts, describing a disciplined同步状态机方法。协调的材料使任何讲师能够早在新生年就将纪律严明的嵌入式编程引入计算课程中，而不必担心复杂的实验室设置或低级硬件/软件详细信息的压倒学生。最终结果是，可以较早的受众和更大的受众介绍有纪律的时间为导向的编程方法。