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

计算机与信息科学与工程系（CISE）正在制定一项课程改进计划，以满足21世纪计算机工程教育的需要。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（CAD）工具、现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）的硬件原型和硬件/软件协同设计。在该规划的中心，建立了本科计算机硬件设计与实时嵌入式系统实验室。新的实验室由PC工作站组成，用于硬件设计和实现，以及嵌入式系统的开发。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进行重组，以利用新的实验室。实验室项目，基于FPGA器件和pc的PCI总线平台，使学生获得设计关键架构组件的实践经验。课程中可增设实时嵌入式系统设计课程。利用实验室设施，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对CISE系的计算机工程专业来说是至关重要的，因为CISE系没有现有的硬件设计设施。本系致力加强硬件开发及硬件/软件协同设计，并不断将领先科技纳入课程。所有计算机工程专业的学生都能有效地利用实验室，学习实用的设计方法，从而为在下一个世纪承担系统设计任务做好充分的准备。

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.