A case study in the development of multi-media educational material
The VHDL interactive tutorial
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20294776 |
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| Authors | Anthony J Gadient, J A Stinson, Jack Stinson, TERI TAYLOR (0000-0003-0559-2773), T C Taylor, J H Aylor, Robert H Klenke, M H Salinas, Miguel Salinas, Vijay K Madisetti (0000-0002-6539-6769), T Egolf, S Famorzadeh, L N Karns, H W Carter |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 17 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IEEE Transactions on Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-9359 • E-ISSN: 1557-9638 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1109/13.759676 |
| OpenAlex | W2032598185 |
| Language | EN |
While industry and academia have been aware of the need for an intensive study of embedded digital system design, resource constraints, fuzzy objectives, and short-time horizon have handicapped progress. The $150M Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program is a major DARPA/Tri-Service effort designed to overcome these limitations. This effort has developed a number of new technologies that will lead to dramatically shorter prototyping times and reduced life cycle costs. In a effort to ensure the successful transfer of these new technologies, the RASSP Education and Facilitation (RASSP E&F) program is working to transfer this technology into graduate and undergraduate curricula by developing and transferring educational material. Only by successfully inserting these rapid-prototyping technologies into the curricula and research activities of the university community will the long term benefits of these technologies be realized. To achieve this technology transfer objective, the RASSP E&F program has developed educational material on the key elements of rapid-prototyping of embedded digital systems technology. The result of this effort is a set of educational "modules" covering selected topics. In conjunction with IEEE, several of the modules developed by the RASSP E&F program designed to teach students the VHDL language were converted to HTML and linked with the VHDL language reference manual to form a self-paced VHDL interactive tutorial. A demonstration version of this learning tool, currently published by IEEE, is presented
Compiler · Curriculum · Embedded system · Engineering management · Field-programmable gate array · Key (lock) · Operating system · Programming language · Rapid prototyping · Set (abstract data type) · Software engineering · Systems engineering · VHDL · Advancements in PLL and VCO Technologies · Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design · Computer Science · Engineering · Experimental Learning in Engineering
| Highly cited | No |
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