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ASIC Design Principle Course with Combination of Online-MOOC and Offline-Inexpensive FPGA Board

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Zhixiong Di,

Yongming Tang,

Jiahua Lu,

Zhaoyang LvAuthors Info & Claims

GLSVLSI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI

Pages 431 - 436

https://doi.org/10.1145/3453688.3461502

Published: 22 June 2021 Publication History

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ASIC Design Principle (ASICDP) is a compulsory course for undergraduate majors in microelectronics and integrated circuits, and the focus of this paper is the teaching methods of online theoretical teaching and offline experimental teaching of this course. As is well known, in order to prevent and control COVID-19, the use of online platforms to carry out online teaching has attracted worldwide attention. In this paper, the teaching strategy "Online-MOOC + Offline Inexpensive FPGA Board" in ASICDP in the Spring 2020 semester is demonstrated, in where MOOC means Massive Open Online Course. The theoretical teaching content of ASICDP is entirely replicated from Hardware Acceleration Design Methodology (HADM) released by the present authors on "China University MOOC," the largest MOOC platform in China. Meanwhile, with the support of the "Xilinx & Ministry of Education University-Industry Collaborative Education Program," an FPGA development board called the "Spartan Edge Accelerator Board" (SEA Board) designed by the authors was used in the experimental teaching of the ASICDP. This method can be used to establish the linkage between online courses and offline experiments, and cultivate students' practical VLSI design and FPGA prototype verification skills. It is believed that for educators that want to improve courses related to ASIC design and FPGA prototype verification, Online-MOOC + Offline-Inexpensive FPGA Board is an effective method with lower cost that is easily promotable and replicated.

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GLSVLSI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI

June 2021

504 pages

ISBN:9781450383936

DOI:10.1145/3453688

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Duke University, USA
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George Mason University, USA
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Drexel University, USA

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Di ZWei XChen YWu SSun PWu Q(2024)A Remote FPGA-based Experimental Teaching System Design Supporting Single-board Multi-user and Multi-board Single-user Operations in MOOCsProceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 202410.1145/3649476.3658762(742-747)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2024
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