Teaching HW/SW Co-Design With a Public Key Cryptography Application

Guest Editorial: A practical approach to understanding - and applying! - the scholarship of application

“…• implementation of a new organic electronics laboratory in a graduate curriculum-the explicit claims of this manuscript are that the new laboratory enhances student learning and improves satisfaction [3]; • development of a hands-on lab project with the explicit claims that it improves interest in the course and encourages students to learn the topics required in designing real embedded systems [4]; • integration of hardware and software design instruction using a cryptography application-the explicit claims of this manuscript are that the course teaches both hardware and software design, along with skills in decision-making, presentation skills, teamwork, and design creativity, skills generally overlooked in engineering [5]; • comparison of the effectiveness of a flipped classroom and a traditional classroom in an upper-division engineering course-the explicit claims are that the new approach allows the instructor to cover more material than the traditional classroom and increases students' performance on in-class assessments [6]. In contrast, examples that might be classified as more representative of the scholarship of discovery or of the scholarship of integration include the following:…”

From Geiger-Counters to File Systems: Remote Hardware Access for the Operating Systems Course

“…Similarly, Uhsadel, et al, use teams of two to develop a publickey cryptography application using a combination of hardware and software. The students define the tradeoff between the hardware and software components, thus providing a platform for using both hard-and soft-skills in their implementation [13].…”

Teaching HW/SW codesign with a Zynq ARM/FPGA SoC

“…The aim of this paper is to introduce the current format of the course project after migration to the Zybo platform. For more details about earlier editions of the course using the 8051+FPGA platform, we refer the reader to [7].…”