A Platform FPGA-Based Hardware-Software Undergraduate Laboratory

A project-based embedded systems design course using a reconfigurable SoC platform

“…This means students complete in-depth laboratory projects with significant problemsolving components designed to expose them to real-world embedded system concepts and challenges. The course described in this paper is one of several embedded systems courses offered at Iowa State University and is a reworking of the original CprE 488 course [9,10]. Fig.…”

Hardware/Software Codesign Pedagogy for the Industry

“…Some universities [17,18,19,20] offered this course as a senior-level undergraduate course as they observed that students at senior level have already been exposed to microcontroller software and hardware design, but the combination of the two is rarely touched. Among them, Iowa State [18,19], provide an introductory course in system level design at undergraduate level as well as an advanced course in graduate level to address competing new technologies. The advantage of this approach is the undergraduate level course allows the students to focus on a more general view of system-level design and gain systemlevel design experience without spending the time to learn a system-level design language, which will be stressed in the graduate level course.…”

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“…Advanced topics in this area are usually delayed until the graduate level, and thus causing undergraduates to lack some design training. In addition, due to the increasing importance of system level design methodologies, aspects of hardwaresoftware codesign should be incorporated in the curriculum [8]. In fact, many books [9,10] have been written targeting undergraduate system-level embedded design courses.…”