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A Unified Platform For Engineering Education In Embedded Systems
Mihajlo Katona, Nikola Teslic and Miodrag Temerinac
Scientix European Conference6-8 May 2011,
Brussels, Belgium
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Embedded System?
Embedded systems are the invisible electronics and software that bring intelligence to objects, processes and devices.
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Introduction
Growing need for embedded systems engineers
Significance of laboratory work in electrical engineering education
Active learning laboratory-based pedagogy Lab/project based courses
Constant updates are needed to keep the course relevant
Problems
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Commercial education boards
Digital design: 100€ - 20,000 €
Microcontrollers: 70€ - 5,000 €
DSP processors: 400€ - 6,000 €
Enormous number of options !
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Academic feedback
Feedback received from global faculty and students across North America, Europe and Asia
Detected barriers in adopting laboratory-based active learning pedagogy Too much time needed to learn a new tool for every
class. Tools are complex, only a subset is needed. Too much time to guide disparate design projects. Design tools may need a lot of support. Many issues in
software installation, revision, licensing and conflicts. Facilities for design and prototyping are hard to
acquire & maintain, very little reuse across courses. Long cycle time to acquire parts and fabricate
prototypes.
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Motivation
Define an approach to unifying a learning platform for embedded systems related lab based engineering courses
Target increase efficiency of lab based education
Idea use a single comprehensive platform for the
complete curriculum
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Unified platform approach
Designed to cover all aspects of embedded systems learning
Digital system design
Computer system design, hardware & software
Digital signal processing of audio, video and data signal streams in real-time
Computer networks and interfaces
System integration
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Unified approach targets
1. Provide platform for cross-curriculum educational support in embedded computer engineering
2. Create universal curriculum with lab examples for learning process in the area of embedded computer engineering
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Board architecture (TLL5000 pilot)
Based on FPGA device
A number of peripherals and interfaces
ARM based housekeeping processor
Great expansion capabilities
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TLL5000
TLL5000 development system provides education of students during entire curriculum in basic electrical and computer engineering studies
Already in educational process on University of Novi Sad,
Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, WI, USA College of Engineering, Needham, MA, USA I.I.I.T.-Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Academic experience
The University of Novi Sad is one of the two leading universities in Serbia
Study group for Computer Engineering and Computer Communication in the Faculty of Technical Sciences practical exercises play an important role with 15
courses having practical exercises as mandatory
Over the years we have used different platforms for different courses
We usually needed 3 or 4 out of 15 laboratory exercise for platform introduction and familiarization with development environment which is a 20-30% overhead on top of class learning
time
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Academic experience
To improve learning efficiencies, it was decided to use the developed platform across all embedded systems related courses.
In current curriculum the design platform is used at Digital Design Principles (2nd year) Computer Architectures (3rd year) and Advanced Chapters in Digital Design (3rd year)
Introduction of the platform required only mild modifications to the covered courses
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Students Perspective
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Additional Information
Ravel, M.; Chang, M.; McDermott, M.; Morrow, M.; Teslic, N.; Katona, M.; Bapat, J., 2009, A Cross-Curriculum Open Design Platform Approach to Electronic and Computing Systems Education, IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, pp.69 – 72
Majstorovic D., Neborovski E., Katona M., 2010, A Cross-Curriculum Embedded Engineering Learning Platform, 33rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO 2010/CE), pp. 283-288
Kastelan I., Katona M., Majstorovic D., Neborovski E., 2011, Students Perspective of the Embedded Engineering Learning Platform - a Case Study in Digital Design, 34th International Convention MIPRO 2011/CE, May 23–27, 2011., Opatija, Croatia, accepted for publication
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Conclusion
We presented an approach to unifying a learning platform for lab based courses in engineering related to embedded systems.
It is based on the developed platform designed to cover a complete process of embedded systems learning.
Academic experience justified the approach.
As expected, positive effects were more pronounced in later courses.
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Future work
We plan to introduce a new late undergraduate project based course that will integrate all student knowledge from embedded system design. Hardware-software co-design Emphasis on system integration
Another direction of the future work is to prepare a teaching platform redesign needed to keep up with constant advance in technology.
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