Architecture and implementation of a development board for low-power education

Author

Winzker, Marco ; Schwandt, Andrea ; Krumkamp, Tobias ; Tieke, Alexander

Author_Institution

Inst. of Visual Comput., Bonn-Rhine-Sieg Univ., St. Augustin, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

19-23 May 2013

Firstpage

2561

Lastpage

2564

Abstract

Education in low-power digital design is a topic within the context of a state-of-the-art electrical engineering curriculum. In this contribution, a development board for use in hands-on lab experiments on power dissipation in digital circuits is described. This board can send a video signal to a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), which students can then program using various signal processing applications. Implementations with different complexity and circuit structures and their power dissipation can be comparatively observed by the students. A prototype of this development board is being manufactured and will be used in hands-on laboratory sessions and projects.

Keywords

digital circuits; electrical engineering education; field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit design; signal processing; FPGA; circuit structure; development board; digital circuit; electrical engineering curriculum; field-programmable gate array; hands-on lab experiment; hands-on laboratory session; low-power digital design; low-power education; power dissipation; signal processing application; Current measurement; Education; Field programmable gate arrays; Laboratories; Power dissipation; Power measurement; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

0271-4302

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5760-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2013.6572401

Filename

6572401