Title :
FPGA design projects with animated problems
Author :
Nagvajara, Prawat
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
We present FPGA design projects where students solve problems in terms of devising algorithms to control real-time systems. They implement the control algorithms using FPGAs. The problems include control of a water tank, a traffic light, a monorail, a two-floor elevator, and a complex two-car elevator system. We developed a set of software applications that simulate and animate these problems, where an external FPGA observes and controls a simulated system in real-time via the computer serial communication
Keywords :
computer science education; electronic engineering education; field programmable gate arrays; lifts; real-time systems; road traffic; traffic control; transportation; FPGA design projects; animated problems; computer serial communication; control algorithms; monorail; real-time systems control; software applications; students; traffic light; two-car elevator system; two-floor elevator; water tank; Algorithm design and analysis; Animation; Communication system traffic control; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Control systems; Elevators; Field programmable gate arrays; Lighting control; Real time systems;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronic Systems Education, 1999. MSE'99. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0312-8
DOI :
10.1109/MSE.1999.787045
