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A Top-Down Approach to the Hardware Design Education Focusing on the Logic Design Courses  

Yi Kang (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Handong Global University)
Jung Kyeong-Hoon (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Handong Global University)
Han Youn-Sik (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Handong Global University)
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Journal of Engineering Education Research / v.6, no.2, 2003 , pp. 22-29 More about this Journal
Abstract
The ultimate goal of a hardware design course is to equip the students with the system design ability. However, the majority of the current structures of the design courses are focused on the understanding of the operational principles of each device which is used later as a building block for the design of a system. The shortcomings of this approach are, first, that it is very hard to keep the students motivated to the end of the course where system design concepts are dealt, and, second, the students do not have enough experience of the system design which is usually required in the field. As an alternative to solve these problems, it is necessary to reverse the order of contents of the course. Namely we introduce the high level of the abstract concept of the system design in the very beginning of the course and later by lowering the level of abstraction to the operational principle of the internal devices. In this paper, we propose a new top-down methodology for the introductory hardware design course of logic design, where the design expression and verification in the system-level are introduced first and then detail knowledge on each device is introduced later. Also, we report a case result from a student's working group as part of an extracurricular education in order to verify the validity of our proposed approach
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