Title :
A simple project for teaching instruction set architecture
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a teaching method for a possible computer architect by using a simple project for an undergraduate-level computer architecture course. The goal of the project is to let students (two or three students per team) understand the concept of computer hardware and how to design a simple RISC-type 16/32-bit instruction set architecture (ISA). The project has worked well for students since they responded favorably to the project and indicated that they learned the concepts of computer hardware and how to design computer architecture as a professional engineer.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; educational courses; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; instruction sets; logic design; reduced instruction set computing; teaching; ISA design; RISC-type 16/32-bit instruction set architecture; computer architecture design; computer engineer; computer hardware; instruction set architecture teaching; students; undergraduate-level computer architecture course; Circuit testing; Computational modeling; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Discrete cosine transforms; Education; Hardware; Instruction sets; Signal design;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2005. ICALT 2005. Fifth IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2338-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2005.23
