TY - GEN
T1 - Incorporating FPGA-based labs within digital design course - A middle-eastern experience
AU - Jamil, Tariq
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/9/2
Y1 - 2015/9/2
N2 - Digital Design is a fundamental course within computer engineering curriculum at various universities around the world aimed at imparting basic information to the students about digital circuits' components and their logical behavior. Current trend is to incorporate Verilog programming and knowledge of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) into the contents of this course so that the students are introduced to these ideas at an early stage in their studies toward getting an engineering degree. In this paper, experiences of a veteran faculty member at a university in the Middle East are presented with reference to the impact on students' academic performance in the Digital Design Labs when these modern concepts are introduced at early stages of the computer engineering education. The depreciation in students' performance because of this academic experiment has provided enough evidence to delay introduction of hardware programming language and FPGAs by a few semesters within the engineering degree plan.
AB - Digital Design is a fundamental course within computer engineering curriculum at various universities around the world aimed at imparting basic information to the students about digital circuits' components and their logical behavior. Current trend is to incorporate Verilog programming and knowledge of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) into the contents of this course so that the students are introduced to these ideas at an early stage in their studies toward getting an engineering degree. In this paper, experiences of a veteran faculty member at a university in the Middle East are presented with reference to the impact on students' academic performance in the Digital Design Labs when these modern concepts are introduced at early stages of the computer engineering education. The depreciation in students' performance because of this academic experiment has provided enough evidence to delay introduction of hardware programming language and FPGAs by a few semesters within the engineering degree plan.
KW - academic performance
KW - digital design
KW - field programmable gate arrays
KW - middle east
KW - university education
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U2 - 10.1109/SAI.2015.7237281
DO - 10.1109/SAI.2015.7237281
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84957828053
T3 - Proceedings of the 2015 Science and Information Conference, SAI 2015
SP - 1104
EP - 1107
BT - Proceedings of the 2015 Science and Information Conference, SAI 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - Science and Information Conference, SAI 2015
Y2 - 28 July 2015 through 30 July 2015
ER -