Knowledge of hardware description languages is an important element in the educational background of both undergraduate and graduate electrical and computer engineering students. However, the manner in which they are exposed to hardware description languages should differ because of the different level of maturity of the student populations. Graduate students are mature intellectually and thus can handle extensive exposure to the underlying abstraction of the language. Undergraduates have more difficulty handling abstraction and thus should be given controlled doses of the language. This paper describes a multilevel approach to reaching hardware description languages that accounts for these differences. Tool sets used in both courses are also described.
{"title":"A multilevel approach to teaching hardware description languages","authors":"J. Armstrong","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612523","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge of hardware description languages is an important element in the educational background of both undergraduate and graduate electrical and computer engineering students. However, the manner in which they are exposed to hardware description languages should differ because of the different level of maturity of the student populations. Graduate students are mature intellectually and thus can handle extensive exposure to the underlying abstraction of the language. Undergraduates have more difficulty handling abstraction and thus should be given controlled doses of the language. This paper describes a multilevel approach to reaching hardware description languages that accounts for these differences. Tool sets used in both courses are also described.","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115745418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The constantly improving price/performance of the mass market PC is making this platform difficult to ignore when considering choices for student EDA software environments. At MSU, our traditional EDA environment has been based upon UNIX/SunSparc workstations. However the computation power of the average student home PC now routinely equals or exceeds the average workstation in our educational facilities. Also, funding pressures are beginning to force a choice between maintaining either full-featured EDA software licenses or up-to-date workstations, but not both. We are currently making an effort to identify EDA vendors and tool suites which run on both UNIX/SunSparc and Win95/Intel platforms. Our aim is to make the full-featured tool suites (not student editions) available to students who wish to run the tools on their home PCs. Thus far we are using three tool suites which have fit these requirements: Model Tech V-System/VHDL simulator, Avanti HSPICE, and Viewlogic Workview Office. Maintaining dual Unix/Win95 versions of tools are a challenge, but student response has been enthusiastic.
{"title":"EDA on Unix/Sparc and Win95/Intel platforms: does compatibility exist?","authors":"R. Reese","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612535","url":null,"abstract":"The constantly improving price/performance of the mass market PC is making this platform difficult to ignore when considering choices for student EDA software environments. At MSU, our traditional EDA environment has been based upon UNIX/SunSparc workstations. However the computation power of the average student home PC now routinely equals or exceeds the average workstation in our educational facilities. Also, funding pressures are beginning to force a choice between maintaining either full-featured EDA software licenses or up-to-date workstations, but not both. We are currently making an effort to identify EDA vendors and tool suites which run on both UNIX/SunSparc and Win95/Intel platforms. Our aim is to make the full-featured tool suites (not student editions) available to students who wish to run the tools on their home PCs. Thus far we are using three tool suites which have fit these requirements: Model Tech V-System/VHDL simulator, Avanti HSPICE, and Viewlogic Workview Office. Maintaining dual Unix/Win95 versions of tools are a challenge, but student response has been enthusiastic.","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120818562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human capital is now generally accepted as the main limiting factor to growth in the microelectronics sector. To remain competitive in world markets, European industry must have access to an educated workforce in key enabling technologies such as electronic materials science, device physics, ULSI processing and microelectronics systems design. The objective of this paper is to present an overview of a new European Union Telematics Application Programme educational initiative in microelectronics; the Multimedia Optimisation and Demonstration for Education in Microelectronics (MODEM) project.
{"title":"Multimedia optimisation and demonstration for education in microelectronics (MODEM): a new European microelectronics telematics based educational initiative","authors":"G. Crean, M. O'Sullivan","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612578","url":null,"abstract":"Human capital is now generally accepted as the main limiting factor to growth in the microelectronics sector. To remain competitive in world markets, European industry must have access to an educated workforce in key enabling technologies such as electronic materials science, device physics, ULSI processing and microelectronics systems design. The objective of this paper is to present an overview of a new European Union Telematics Application Programme educational initiative in microelectronics; the Multimedia Optimisation and Demonstration for Education in Microelectronics (MODEM) project.","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114841252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper we will present a project which started as VDHL Online and is now developing into an integrated teaching system for high level design of digital systems. The VHDL Interactive Learning project is based on the Internet as information storage system. Using the Internet offers a wide range of abilities: static information like foils and explaining text, links which cannot be realized in a book, direct inclusion of commercial tools for getting online experience and interaction between teacher and students via e-mail and Internet relay chat. This concept of having the information available on the Net is now used in courses on high level design in a growing number of universities in Germany. Due to the high quality and completeness of the information it is possible for the students to prepare themselves at home and even do the basic training at home using an Internet access.
{"title":"Introducing multimedia in teaching of digital system design","authors":"P. Conradi, U. Heinkel, M. Wahl","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612560","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we will present a project which started as VDHL Online and is now developing into an integrated teaching system for high level design of digital systems. The VHDL Interactive Learning project is based on the Internet as information storage system. Using the Internet offers a wide range of abilities: static information like foils and explaining text, links which cannot be realized in a book, direct inclusion of commercial tools for getting online experience and interaction between teacher and students via e-mail and Internet relay chat. This concept of having the information available on the Net is now used in courses on high level design in a growing number of universities in Germany. Due to the high quality and completeness of the information it is possible for the students to prepare themselves at home and even do the basic training at home using an Internet access.","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126530689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Tomas, Y. Deval, P. Fouillat, E. Ragbi, J. Dom, J. Aucouturier
Teaching analog electronics leads us to set up a complete analog integrated circuit design flow to allow students to detail the main aspects of designer's tasks. In our case we propose the following design flow: circuit design and simulation, circuit integration by customizing prediffused array, die bonding and testing of the final circuit. All these steps require classical equipment except customizing the array which is made by a laser beam direct writing system.
{"title":"Design, integration and characterization of analog integrated circuits: a complete design flow dedicated to microelectronics education","authors":"J. Tomas, Y. Deval, P. Fouillat, E. Ragbi, J. Dom, J. Aucouturier","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612554","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching analog electronics leads us to set up a complete analog integrated circuit design flow to allow students to detail the main aspects of designer's tasks. In our case we propose the following design flow: circuit design and simulation, circuit integration by customizing prediffused array, die bonding and testing of the final circuit. All these steps require classical equipment except customizing the array which is made by a laser beam direct writing system.","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128011996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shares experience of teaching the design of a chip under the Cadence Opus environment using the Alliance cell libraries. This course is taken by the students of the Master Degree in Integrated Circuits and CAD for VLSI of the University of Pierre et Marie Curie of Paris. The course, organized mainly as laboratory work, is intended to teach an industrial set of CAD tools for VLSI. During the first year this course has been given, the students helped actively in the work of parametrizing the Cadence Opus tools to permit the use of the Alliance libraries. Alliance is a set of CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI developed at the laboratory and distributed freely all around the world. This work has given rise to a design kit for the Alliance libraries under Cadence Opus. The design kit allows one to design complete circuits under Cadence Opus. During the course the students used the design kit to design a complete AMD2901 chip from the Advanced Micro Devices company starting from its architecture specification. In this paper we discuss the Cadence Opus database, then we present the general design method using the Cadence Alliance design kit. We also investigate the portability of the Alliance libraries to Cadence Opus, and describe the use of Opus to design an example circuit. Before drawing a conclusion we will lay out the general plan of the course.
分享在 Cadence Opus 环境下使用 Alliance 单元库进行芯片设计的教学经验。该课程由巴黎皮埃尔和玛丽居里大学集成电路和超大规模集成电路 CAD 专业的硕士生选修。该课程主要以实验室工作的形式组织，旨在教授一套用于 VLSI 的工业 CAD 工具。在开设这门课程的第一年里，学生们积极参与了 Cadence Opus 工具的参数化工作，以便能够使用 Alliance 库。Alliance 是实验室为 VLSI 开发的一套 CAD 工具和便携式库，在全球免费发布。这项工作催生了 Cadence Opus 下的 Alliance 库设计工具包。通过该设计工具包，可以在 Cadence Opus 下设计完整的电路。在课程中，学生们使用该设计工具包从高级微设备公司的架构规范开始，设计了一个完整的 AMD2901 芯片。本文首先讨论了 Cadence Opus 数据库，然后介绍了使用 Cadence Alliance 设计工具包的一般设计方法。我们还研究了联盟库与 Cadence Opus 的可移植性，并介绍了使用 Opus 设计示例电路的情况。在得出结论之前，我们将列出课程的总体计划。
{"title":"Teaching the design of a chip under the Cadence Opus environment using the Alliance cell libraries","authors":"M. Aberbour, A. Derieux, H. Mehrez, N. Vaucher","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612556","url":null,"abstract":"Shares experience of teaching the design of a chip under the Cadence Opus environment using the Alliance cell libraries. This course is taken by the students of the Master Degree in Integrated Circuits and CAD for VLSI of the University of Pierre et Marie Curie of Paris. The course, organized mainly as laboratory work, is intended to teach an industrial set of CAD tools for VLSI. During the first year this course has been given, the students helped actively in the work of parametrizing the Cadence Opus tools to permit the use of the Alliance libraries. Alliance is a set of CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI developed at the laboratory and distributed freely all around the world. This work has given rise to a design kit for the Alliance libraries under Cadence Opus. The design kit allows one to design complete circuits under Cadence Opus. During the course the students used the design kit to design a complete AMD2901 chip from the Advanced Micro Devices company starting from its architecture specification. In this paper we discuss the Cadence Opus database, then we present the general design method using the Cadence Alliance design kit. We also investigate the portability of the Alliance libraries to Cadence Opus, and describe the use of Opus to design an example circuit. Before drawing a conclusion we will lay out the general plan of the course.","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130288683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A World Wide Web-based education center for analog microsystem design education is described. This education center combines written tutorials, simulation and web-based measurement experiments into a single web site that can be accessed by the general engineering community. The web-controlled measurement suite is described in detail. Contact the author for information on how to access the education center over the web.
{"title":"A World Wide Web education center for analog microsystem design education","authors":"R. Caverly, V. Zlatkovic","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612542","url":null,"abstract":"A World Wide Web-based education center for analog microsystem design education is described. This education center combines written tutorials, simulation and web-based measurement experiments into a single web site that can be accessed by the general engineering community. The web-controlled measurement suite is described in detail. Contact the author for information on how to access the education center over the web.","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131214151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Huang, R. Melton, P. Bingham, C. Alford, Farzad Ghannadian
There are problems in incorporating VHDL into the undergraduate curriculum's beginning computer architecture courses. The problems relate mainly to cost arising from two factors: VHDL tool availability and proper lecture material to coincide with the course objective(s). At the Georgia Institute of Technology, pilot VHDL lecture materials have been developed to address these two issues.
{"title":"The teaching of VHDL in computer architecture","authors":"T. Huang, R. Melton, P. Bingham, C. Alford, Farzad Ghannadian","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612581","url":null,"abstract":"There are problems in incorporating VHDL into the undergraduate curriculum's beginning computer architecture courses. The problems relate mainly to cost arising from two factors: VHDL tool availability and proper lecture material to coincide with the course objective(s). At the Georgia Institute of Technology, pilot VHDL lecture materials have been developed to address these two issues.","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133157892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Graduate students can usually be classified in two categories: research engineers and practicing engineers. The microelectronic systems education of these two groups of students have different objectives. This paper describes a one semester course developed to meet the objectives for both groups of students. The course lectures cover custom and semicustom CMOS VLSI circuit design, and the laboratory utilizes a mixture of public domain and commercial CAD tools.
{"title":"A VLSI circuit design course for practitioners and researchers","authors":"B. Carlson","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612525","url":null,"abstract":"Graduate students can usually be classified in two categories: research engineers and practicing engineers. The microelectronic systems education of these two groups of students have different objectives. This paper describes a one semester course developed to meet the objectives for both groups of students. The course lectures cover custom and semicustom CMOS VLSI circuit design, and the laboratory utilizes a mixture of public domain and commercial CAD tools.","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114445889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Though laboratories are an important element in student education, the development of effective labs is impeded by several factors: (i) the present academic reward system does not encourage or promote laboratory development time; (ii) there is no mechanism in place to distribute labs; and (iii) there is no mechanism in place to review or recognize appropriate lab assignments. We propose a laboratory distribution system that allows labs to be developed by faculty members at different universities, reviewed by an external review board, and then cataloged and stored for use by faculty at other universities. This system benefits the author of the labs (recognition, feedback), the other faculty that use the lab assignments (decreased preparation time), and the review body (fosters cooperative environment among universities, ensures laboratory "quality control").
{"title":"Infrastructure for laboratory distribution","authors":"R. Hodson, James Hereford","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612563","url":null,"abstract":"Though laboratories are an important element in student education, the development of effective labs is impeded by several factors: (i) the present academic reward system does not encourage or promote laboratory development time; (ii) there is no mechanism in place to distribute labs; and (iii) there is no mechanism in place to review or recognize appropriate lab assignments. We propose a laboratory distribution system that allows labs to be developed by faculty members at different universities, reviewed by an external review board, and then cataloged and stored for use by faculty at other universities. This system benefits the author of the labs (recognition, feedback), the other faculty that use the lab assignments (decreased preparation time), and the review body (fosters cooperative environment among universities, ensures laboratory \"quality control\").","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122571787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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