Integrating CAE tools into computer engineering courses

Author

Duckworth, R. James

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

21-23 Jul 1997

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

15

Abstract

The use of CAE tools in digital logic and computer circuit design is growing in importance in two separate but closely related areas: first, by allowing the design team to bring new products to market faster, and second, to provide the tools needed to cope with the complexity and density of the integrated circuits used in the products. This paper describes our experiences in commercial quality CAE tools from Xilinx and Altera into our computer engineering courses. These tools include schematic entry and digital analysis in our logic circuits course, and the use of VHDL simulation and synthesis, and place and route tools for PLD and FPGAs in the VLSI and microprocessor courses

Keywords

VLSI; circuit CAD; circuit analysis computing; computer aided engineering; computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; electronic engineering education; integrated circuit design; logic CAD; Altera; CAE tools; FPGA; PLD; VHDL simulation; VLSI course; Xilinx; computer circuit design; computer engineering courses; digital analysis; digital logic design; integrated circuits; logic circuits course; microprocessor course; place/route tools; schematic entry; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Computational modeling; Computer aided engineering; Digital integrated circuits; Field programmable gate arrays; Integrated circuit synthesis; Logic circuits; Logic design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronic Systems Education, 1997. MSE '97. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7996-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSE.1997.612527

Filename

612527