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

工程-计算机(32)这个项目正在通过开发材料来改进教育实践和学生学习，这些材料提供了将异步概念轻松地整合到现有数字系统课程结构中的方法。由于增加电路健壮性、降低功耗和缓解许多与时钟相关的问题的需求正开始导致从同步设计风格向异步设计风格的转变，因此将这种材料引入计算机工程课程变得极其重要。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门本科生/研究生水平的课程中：一门是关于用VHDL语言进行数字系统建模的，另一门是关于VLSI设计的。这一项目的成果正通过适当的会议介绍和期刊出版物进行传播，这些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。与学习目标相匹配的专门设计的非学分测试和测验被用来评估学生的学习，标准的机构问卷被用来描述学生对材料的态度。另一家机构的一位同事正在以外部内容专家的身份对材料进行正式审查。该项目的更广泛影响是通过各种出版物和张贴来传播这些材料。

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.