Impact of testability standards on university research and instruction

The impact of emerging standards on university research and instruction is addressed. Initially, impact on research, specifically research in testing, is dealt with followed by a discussion of the potential impact on instruction. Before treating each of these areas separately, the current impact of standards on research and instruction in the hardware design area in general are briefly reviewed. Two categories, general standards that affect a significant portion of all designs, and special standards that affect only the design of specific subsystems, are briefly reviewed. These are illustrated by the various standards that have an impact on courses in computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin