The Amalthea Reu Program: Activities, Experiences, And Outcomes Of A Collaborative Summer Research Experience In Machine Learning

Anagnostopoulos, Georgios C.; Georgiopoulos, Michael; Këpuska, Veton; Stanley, Kenneth O.; Morrison-Shetlar, Alison I.; Lancey, Pat; Krist, Paula; Crouse, Tace

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“…Benefit of incorporating research elements: Although undergraduate students may not be matured enough for research, a flavor of such could be introduced to them [11]. Performance and power consumption of a design, trade-offs among various metrics, and the issues of reliability and upgradability could be analyzed for a design implementation.…”

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Computer Architecture Design and Analysis Involving Reconfigurable Hardware Platform

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2010 GSW Proceedings

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Computer Architecture and Organization deals with both software and hardware aspects of computer systems. This is important both for a programmer and a system designer. Due to their wide spread penetration in all fields, it is almost obligatory for students in Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunication engineering programs to master the basics of these two areas. Although a typical microprocessor programming course covers the architecture part of it, organization of systems is not widely addressed. Memory interfacing and expansion techniques, cache memory organization, memory management unit for virtual memory organization, alternative ways of processor design, fast arithmetic circuits are some topics covered under organization. The purpose, concept, and design of these system elements can be covered in a lecture class whereas their hardware implementation can be supported in a laboratory environment. The laboratory exercises would certainly enhance experiential learning of the students. However, choosing a suitable platform to accommodate the laboratory exercises is challenging as it needs to satisfy peculiar needs of different types of designs. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide a flexible hardware platform to accommodate digital systems. FPGAs, such as the ones provided by Xilinx, are quite useful in applications requiring hardware changes to accommodate system behavior. As such, these devices offer the opportunity to implement different computer system components conveniently in hardware using VHDL (Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language). FPGAs can be easily reconfigured to evaluate alternative design approaches often encountered in computer systems. With such implementation data, more complex models can be formulated and simulated to predict and evaluate system performance. Thus, such a reconfigurable platform also enables architecture and organization research. This paper presents an outline of a course covering concepts and implementation of computer system elements, associated laboratory exercises involving reconfigurable logic, and course related research with simulation results.

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confidence: 99%