The teaching of VHDL in computer architecture

Huang, Tsai Chi; Melton, Rachel E.; Bingham, Philip R.; Alford, Cecil O.; Ghannadian, Farzad

doi:10.1109/mse.1997.612581

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“…The state-of-the-art reveals several works addressing the subject in depth. For example, (Huang et al, 1997), talk about a pilot VHDL teaching resources that have been suggested to cope with the availability of VHDL tools and class educational resources that agree with the computer architecture course syllabus. In (Etxebarria et al, 2001), authors built a workbench board integrating VHDL that aids in reinforcing the theoretical knowledge of students on digital design, practise design and simulation, in addition to observe the actual behaviour of programmable logic devices (PLDs).…”

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Why Are Hardware Description Languages Important for Hardware Design Courses?

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Al-Zoubi

2021

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education

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Curricula in computer engineering, computer science, and other related fields include several courses about hardware design. Examples of these courses are digital logic design, computer architecture, microprocessors, computer interfacing, hardware design, embedded systems, switching theorem, and others. In order for the students to realize the concepts taught in such courses, practical track should be reinforced along with the theoretical track. Many universities offer to their students labs in which they can practice hardware design. However, students need more than that: they need tools that enable them to design, model, simulate, synthesize, and implement hardware designs. Although high-level programming languages like Java and C++ could be an option, it might be a tedious task to use them for this mission. Fortunately, hardware-description languages (HDLs) have been specifically devised for this purpose. This paper shows some of the great features of HDLs and compare using them with using C++ for illustrating digital concepts through salient examples.

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Why Are Hardware Description Languages Important for Hardware Design Courses?

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Al-Zoubi

2021

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education

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Teaching pipelining and concurrency using hardware description languages

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Yalamanchili

Melton

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Proceedings 1999 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE'99) 'Systems Education in the 21st Cen

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Applied VHDL Training Methodology, EDA Framework and Hardware Implementation Platform

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Rocke

Halloran

2005 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig'05)

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Provision of free, downloadable industry-standard reconfigurable hardware EDA tools is a growing and welcome trend. Low cost, ever-more-complex FPGAbased embedded system development platforms with host interface control are becoming more readily available. This paper describes a series of structured VHDL workshop modules which use the Xilinx ISE Webpack / ModelsimXE Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and Digilent Spartan-3 hardware development system. The described course implements an extendable embedded system, which performs a selection of image and audio processing applications, controlled by a host Graphical User Interface (GUI). A formal structured design, documentation and test methodology is incorporated throughout the course. Enhancements to EDA tool VHDL and diagram creation wizard support are proposed to aid VHDL capture automation and design visualisation. Improved student understanding and achievement level in VHDL programming, digital embedded system design techniques and FPGA implementation has resulted.

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The teaching of VHDL in computer architecture

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Why Are Hardware Description Languages Important for Hardware Design Courses?

Why Are Hardware Description Languages Important for Hardware Design Courses?

Teaching pipelining and concurrency using hardware description languages

Applied VHDL Training Methodology, EDA Framework and Hardware Implementation Platform

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