Title :
Internet-based training of reconfigurable technologies
Author :
Becker, Jurgen ; Kirschbaum, Andreas ; Renner, Frank-Michael ; Glesner, Manfred
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Microelectron. Syst., Tech. Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany
fDate :
30 Sep-3 Oct 1998
Abstract :
The paper presents perspectives for realizing Internet-based training in reconfigurable technologies by describing an FPGA-course currently under development at Darmstadt University of Technology. Additionally, it tries to stress the possibilities of such promising, flexible and cheap computing systems, and also to identify present disadvantages in order to accelerate future developments, as well as to force more necessary interrelations between industry and academic fields. Within this FPGA-course, persons interested in the perspectives of reconfigurable computing (e.g. students as well as small companies) are offered an amount of information covering an introduction into reconfigurable computing and its applications, cost/performance trade-offs (e.g. for small companies), fine-/coarse-grained and hybrid device architectures, overview on vendors and corresponding design tools, and finally the structural programming process including examples from different areas
Keywords :
Internet; computer based training; educational courses; reconfigurable architectures; structured programming; Darmstadt University of Technology; FPGA-course; Internet-based training; coarse-grained architectures; cost/performance trade-offs; design tools; fine-grained architectures; hybrid device architectures; reconfigurable technologies; structural programming process; students; Circuits; Costs; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; High performance computing; Internet; Logic arrays; Microelectronics; Microprocessors; Postal services;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Circuit Design, 1998. Proceedings. XI Brazilian Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Rio de Janeiro
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8704-5
DOI :
10.1109/SBCCI.1998.715404