Using virtual platform in embedded system education

Lim, Heuiseok; Yu, Heonchang; Suh, Taeweon

doi:10.1002/cae.20401

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“…To improve teaching, universities have adopted various pedagogical methods such as problem-based learning (PBL) [10], [11], experiential learning [12], [13], and incremental learning [13], [14]. Linge et al [11] reports their experience of using PBL for teaching computer network design.…”

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Pipelined CPU Design With FPGA in Teaching Computer Architecture

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et al. 2012

IEEE Trans. Educ.

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This paper presents a pipelined CPU design project with a field programmable gate array (FPGA) system in a computer architecture course. The class project is a five-stage pipelined 32-bit MIPS design with experiments on the Altera DE2 board. For proper scheduling, milestones were set every one or two weeks to help students complete the project on time. The goal of the project is to educate students effectively via hands-on learning, rather than having them achieve a complete and flawless CPU design. This study reveals that 21 MIPS instructions are enough to achieve the purpose. With the addition in 2010 of the properly enforced scheduling and the FPGA system, many more students successfully completed the class project than was the case in 2009. A student survey and the independent samples t-test reveal the effectiveness of the methodology with the FPGA system. This work differs from previous work in that the devised project requires the implementation of a real CPU instead of utilizing simulators or just experimenting with ready-made complete CPU models.Index Terms-Computer architecture, education, field programmable gate array (FPGA), hands-on learning, incremental learning, pipeline, problem-based learning (PBL).

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Pipelined CPU Design With FPGA in Teaching Computer Architecture

Lee

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IEEE Trans. Educ.

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“…Among them may be mentioned the work done by Aguilar et al [9] in building and testing hardware sensor nodes prototypes as a part of a WSN course. In a similar way, in order to reduce economic costs and the learning time of hardware design tools, Lim et al [10] developed a virtual hardware platform which allowed students to make modifications on the (virtual) hardware and software components of the system. Nevertheless this course is not specifically focused on WSN and does not provide an understanding of its particular design issues.…”

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An educational tool for wireless sensor networks

Losilla

Sánchez

Álvarez

et al. 2012

Comp Applic In Engineering

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ABSTRACT:The present paper introduces a tool, which simplifies the description of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) applications by means of a visual language and automatic generation of executable code. The tool has been used to provide non-experienced students with a practical introduction to WSN concepts in a short period of time. Using the tool allowed students to quickly develop their own applications and test with them, focusing on their functional aspects rather than on programming and platform-dependent matters. This has yielded good results in the adaptation to the new European Higher Education Area (EHEA) envisaged by the Bologna Process, promoting an increased role of students in education as well as improving their motivation.

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“…Second, looking at the virtualization approach, four studies, [7,11,12,14], have been published. The virtualization technique provides the illusion that a single user has a single computer, even though there are multiple users, by isolating and demultiplexing physical hardware at the system level.…”

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CLIK: Cloud‐based Linux kernel practice environment and judgment system

Park

Kim

2020

Comp Applic In Engineering

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Assignments on kernel programming are essential parts of operating system (OS) courses taught to computer science students to provide them a deep understanding of real‐world OSs. However, these assignments require tremendous effort from both students and instructors. Students are routinely flustered by the daunting task of building a practice environment from scratch; instructors are pressurized for time while validating a student's work that requires several kernel installations and reboots. To minimize this effort, we propose CLIK, a cloud‐based Linux kernel practice environment supporting automatic judgment. It provides students with an individual and easy‐to‐use kernel practice environment and instructors with a fast and easy evaluation of students' work with live feedback. Our experiences with two assignments from a real‐world OS course carried out on CLIK show that CLIK can successfully provide Linux kernel environments for 40 students and help instructors greatly by validating their kernels within one minute using parallel and automated judgments. We also describe detailed lessons learned from developing CLIK that will help both researchers and instructors building similar systems.

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Using virtual platform in embedded system education

Cited by 12 publications

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Pipelined CPU Design With FPGA in Teaching Computer Architecture

Pipelined CPU Design With FPGA in Teaching Computer Architecture

An educational tool for wireless sensor networks

CLIK: Cloud‐based Linux kernel practice environment and judgment system

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