Title :
VALID: custom ASIC verification and FPGA education platform
Author :
Murphy, Patrick ; Frantz, J. Patrick ; Welsh, Erik ; Hardy, Ricky ; Mohsenin, Tinoosh ; Cavallaro, Joseph
Author_Institution :
Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes VALID, a platform for testing student designed ASICs and for teaching the basics of FPGA design. VALID is designed to maximize ease of use from a student´s perspective while maintaining enough flexibility for its use as an FPGA development and instruction platform. This system was designed entirely by students, has been successfully manufactured and is currently being used in a number of courses at Rice.
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; electronic engineering education; field programmable gate arrays; teaching; testing; FPGA design; FPGA development platform; FPGA education platform; FPGA instruction platform; VALID; application specific integrated circuits; custom ASIC verification; field programmable gate array; student designed system; teaching; Application specific integrated circuits; Education; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Linux; Microprocessors; SDRAM; Sockets; Testing; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronic Systems Education, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1973-3
DOI :
10.1109/MSE.2003.1205257
