BZK.SAU.FPGA10.1: A modular approach to FPGA‐based micro computer architecture design for educational purpose

Öztekin, Halit; Temurtaş, Feyzullah; Gülbağ, Ali

doi:10.1002/cae.20553

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“…The placement of characters in the screen area is shown in Figure 2. The steps or phases of the interpreting process to keyboard controller is shown in Figure 3 2.3 | Operating system (OS) design for the system In the previous system named BZK.SAU.FPGA10.1 [22], user writes their programs in the assembly language of the system and manually processes the machine code corresponding to these commands from the table to the memory area that starts with the 0 × 100 address of the system. At the same time, editing the written program, changing machine codes, and transferring these codes back to the corresponding area in memory is trouble.…”

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On the improvement of the teaching quality and learning effectiveness in the computer organization course through FPGA and modular centered microcomputer design

Öztekin¹,

Temurtaş²,

Gülbağ³

2018

Comp Applic In Engineering

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This manuscript focuses on the results of a project study on the field programmable gate array (FPGA) and modular based microcomputer architecture design for improving the teaching and learning effectiveness in computer organization course and similar courses. The design mentioned in this manuscript is a unique system allowing to students to directly write their program and/or include their own designs. The main objective of this study is to improve the teaching effectiveness in the computer organization course at graduate level via hands‐on learning. The goal of the project is to encourage students to create their unique microcomputer designs since this design has modular structure and the fundamental elements which a simple computer has. Also it is to make appropriate modifications using students’ concerns and the results of project study for computer architecture and organization course for next semesters. To evaluate the improvement of the teaching and learning effectiveness, the students enrolled in the computer organization course in computer engineering department are divided into two groups. A student survey is conducted to provide students with an opportunity to have their views about this methodology at computer organization course. The results of the survey acquired with the probability density distribution function reveal the effectiveness of this methodology with FPGA development environment.

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On the improvement of the teaching quality and learning effectiveness in the computer organization course through FPGA and modular centered microcomputer design

Öztekin¹,

Temurtaş²,

Gülbağ³

2018

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“…If the electronic platform has the reconfigurability feature, then it offers both the reusability option and rapid prototyping opportunities. For these reasons, the embedded hardware solutions are often preferred in both engineering education and industrial fields .…”

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Modeling, simulation, and implementation issues of CPGs for neuromorphic engineering applications

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2018

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Neuromorphic engineering is a discipline used to develop hardware, which can mimic the characteristics and abilities of biological systems by investigating their physiological structures and data transfer mechanisms. The recent studies about the neuromorphic systems mostly consist of robotic applications whose designs are inspired by Central Pattern Generators (CPGs). CPGs are special neural networks which can produce coordinated rhythmic activity patterns and these rhythmic movements are modeled mathematically, tested with simulation programs and verified by hardware implementations. A reconfigurable hardware platform (Field Programmable Gate Array “FPGA”) is compatible with numerical simulation tools, allows software control over hardware, has a user‐friendly interface and allows real time modifications. Thus, recently, it is preferred in CPG based robotic applications. In this study, the details of the modeling, simulation and implementation stages of several CPG structures are introduced by using a digital reconfigurable hardware platform. In order to show the conceptual learning achievements of these stages and to assess the contribution to the modeling, simulation and implementation skills of the students, a training course has been planned for the undergraduate students at Erciyes University. This process has been held in an educative manner supported by a survey and an experimental examination, so that this training course has been evaluated by the trainees in terms of the advantage, practicality, and challenge.

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“…BZK and SAU words are the acronym of Bozok and Sakarya University. We have adopted the modular approach to the second FPGA version of the BZK.SAU [9] named BZK.SAU.FPGA10.1 [10]. [8] and [9] have the same architecture.…”

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FPGA-Based Flash Memory Controller for BZK.SAU.FPGA10.1 Microcomputer Architecture Design as an Educational Tool

Öztekin¹,

Temurtaş²,

Ölmez³

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Operating systems and computer architecture and organization course are fundamental topics underlying many disciplines, including computer, electrical and electronics engineering departments. These courses involve both a theoretical and practical part for the effective learning process. A FPGA-based micro computer architecture design named BZK.SAU.FPGA10.1 was proposed to reinforce computer architecture and organization fundamentals in 2011. Also we developed an educational operating system named BZK.SAUOS from scratch on BZK.SAU.FPGA10.1 architecture. The program written using the user interface of this operating system was saved to main memory of this microcomputer architecture since it does not have a nonvolatile memory unit. So the process of editing on a file previously written is not impossible. This paper addresses an effective learning approach that permits one to work on real computer architecture and original operating system while supporting easily to save and edit their program using flash memory instead of main memory. The flash memory controller in this work have been designed completely hardware. So this controller allows the students to examine the internal structure of this controller while improving the motivation in the control of storage units like flash memory, hard disk etc. Overall, this work helps the students to improve controller design experience of storage units in low-level in addition to an increase in their learning process in the computer architecture and operating systems topics. Index Terms-BZK.SAU.FPGA, educational tool, memory controller, microcomputer architecture design, operating system. I. INTRODUCTION Operating systems and Computer architecture and organization courses are some of the main courses in the computer engineering and computer science. The effective learning process in these courses involves both a theoretical and practical part. There are several of designs and simulators in the open literature to improve the motivation in these courses. We also developed two FPGA-based microcomputer architecture designs named BZK.SAU.FPGA10.0 and BZK.SAU.FPGA10.1 in addition to literature. Then we designed an educational operating system named Manuscript

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BZK.SAU.FPGA10.1: A modular approach to FPGA‐based micro computer architecture design for educational purpose

Abstract: This article describes a modular approach to FPGA-based micro computer architecture design for supporting undergraduate courses in computer science and related discipline. We have adopted the modular approach to the second FPGA version of the BZK.SAU[6] named BZK.SAU.FPGA10

Cited by 9 publications

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On the improvement of the teaching quality and learning effectiveness in the computer organization course through FPGA and modular centered microcomputer design

On the improvement of the teaching quality and learning effectiveness in the computer organization course through FPGA and modular centered microcomputer design

Modeling, simulation, and implementation issues of CPGs for neuromorphic engineering applications

FPGA-Based Flash Memory Controller for BZK.SAU.FPGA10.1 Microcomputer Architecture Design as an Educational Tool

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