TOP-DOWN EDUCATION FOR DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN COURSE BASED ON CELLULAR METHODS
Norihiro Fujii, Atsutoshi Imai, Tomomi Abe, Niki Suzuta, Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Shûichi Yukita, Nobuhiko Koike · 2003
We propose a new top-down eLearning toolfor hardware logic design cour.se using the cellular merhod, where student.< can keep/ocu.sing on their primay intere.rt.s lo achieve complex logic circuits design succe.ss/ully. At a modern logic design classroom, hardware description languages such a.T VerilogHDL are mostly used to describe circui1.s /or FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). These HDL descriptions are wrapped in XML (Extensible Markup Language) with a specially arranged XM vocabulaty, in order to share designed modules among .siudent.s on the Web. Although XML gives us o common and convenient Weh/ramework, it becomes di//icult to veri3 and maintain conformance among designed modules i/ the system becomes very large. To overcome this problem, we employed the cellular niodels that enrure the convistency among design modules and suppori a top-down design methodology. The proposed system i.s expected to achieve higher eflciency for preparing logic design lecture c0ur.se.s. Thir paper presents the basic XML vocahuloy design to describe hardware modules eflciently, and also presents a sample eLearning cnuneware on the Weh employing thk XML vocahulaty.