A digital engineering curriculum with integrated, Windows-based EDA tools

Author

Walczowski, L.T. ; Dimond, K.R. ; Waller, W.A.J.

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Labs., Kent Univ., Canterbury, UK

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

425

Abstract

The move to the Windows NT operating system by the University Computing Service, was an excellent opportunity for the Electronic Engineering Department at Kent to develop a new digital engineering curriculum, which closely integrated EDA tools and multi-media courseware into the syllabus. This paper examines the development of the curriculum and describes the software that has been integrated including tools for schematic capture, logic simulation, VLSI design and high-level simulation. The advantages of closely integrating computer based teaching with conventional lecture based material are described

Keywords

VLSI; circuit CAD; circuit simulation; computer aided instruction; courseware; digital circuits; educational courses; electronic design automation; electronic engineering education; engineering graphics; graphical user interfaces; high level synthesis; integrated circuit design; logic simulation; operating systems (computers); ChipWise Tutor; Electronic Engineering Department; Kent; TINA; VLSI design; Windows NT operating system; Windows-based EDA tools; computer based teaching; digital engineering curriculum; high-level simulation; logic simulation; multi-media courseware; schematic capture; Computational modeling; Courseware; Education; Electronic design automation and methodology; Logic design; Multimedia computing; Multimedia systems; Operating systems; Software tools; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisboa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5008-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.1998.814022

Filename

814022