Paper Info
Title
On the introduction of reconfigurable hardware into computer architecture education
Abstract
The introduction of reconfigurable logic devices as teaching-aids, into undergraduate and graduate education, enables the students to conduct experiments they could otherwise not perform. Furthermore, this approach gives instructors the freedom to choose architectures that are dictated by the underlying hardware to a lesser extent. Today's Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) can implement integer units as complex as the SPARC V8 at a reasonable hardware price. Educational boards that replace conventional CPUs with reconfigurable logic devices can be integrated into an existing syllabus with legacy hardware requirements without disruption, as long as the soft-CPU core on the reconfigurable logic device provides opcode compatibility with the superseded processing unit.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1145/1275521.1275541
WCAE
Keywords
Field
DocType
sparc v8,reconfigurable hardware,educational board,reasonable hardware price,computer architecture education,graduate education,legacy hardware requirement,conventional cpus,underlying hardware,existing syllabus,field programmable gate arrays,reconfigurable logic device,computer architecture,field programmable gate array
Opcode,Computer architecture,Syllabus,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Graduate education,Legacy system,Embedded system,Programmable logic device,Reconfigurable computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.59
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ross Brennan181.89
Michael Manzke2449.19