TY - JOUR
T1 - Vertical integration of system-on-chip concepts in the digital design curriculum
AU - Tang, Ying
AU - Head, Linda M.
AU - Ramachandran, Ravi P.
AU - Chatman, Lawrence M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 30, 2009; revised December 16, 2009; accepted April 05, 2010. Date of publication June 03, 2010; date of current version May 04, 2011. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant 0633512.
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - The rapid evolution of System-on-Chip (SoC) challenges academic curricula to keep pace with multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary system thinking. This paper presents a curricular prototype that cuts across artificial course boundaries and provides a meaningful exploration of diverse facets of SoC design. Specifically, experimental contents of a digital flow SoC product design-a simplified Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) stack-are systematically developed and implemented in the series of courses that comprise the Digital Design track of the Rowan Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) curriculum. The System-on-Chip project and its progressively more complex laboratory modules are described and discussed. Its implementation in the existing ECE curriculum is also presented along with the assessment results.
AB - The rapid evolution of System-on-Chip (SoC) challenges academic curricula to keep pace with multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary system thinking. This paper presents a curricular prototype that cuts across artificial course boundaries and provides a meaningful exploration of diverse facets of SoC design. Specifically, experimental contents of a digital flow SoC product design-a simplified Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) stack-are systematically developed and implemented in the series of courses that comprise the Digital Design track of the Rowan Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) curriculum. The System-on-Chip project and its progressively more complex laboratory modules are described and discussed. Its implementation in the existing ECE curriculum is also presented along with the assessment results.
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U2 - 10.1109/TE.2010.2050773
DO - 10.1109/TE.2010.2050773
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955579185
VL - 54
SP - 188
EP - 196
JO - IRE Transactions on Education
JF - IRE Transactions on Education
SN - 0018-9359
IS - 2
M1 - 5477209
ER -