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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences research in service of innovation A Unified Platform For Engineering Education In Embedded Systems Mihajlo Katona, Nikola Teslic and Miodrag Temerinac Scientix European Conference 6-8 May 2011, Brussels, Belgium

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

A Unified Platform For Engineering Education In Embedded Systems

Mihajlo Katona, Nikola Teslic and Miodrag Temerinac

Scientix European Conference6-8 May 2011,

Brussels, Belgium

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Embedded System?

Embedded systems are the invisible electronics and software that bring intelligence to objects, processes and devices.

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Introduction

Growing need for embedded systems engineers

Significance of laboratory work in electrical engineering education

Active learning laboratory-based pedagogy Lab/project based courses

Constant updates are needed to keep the course relevant

Problems

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Commercial education boards

Digital design: 100€ - 20,000 €

Microcontrollers: 70€ - 5,000 €

DSP processors: 400€ - 6,000 €

Enormous number of options !

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Academic feedback

Feedback received from global faculty and students across North America, Europe and Asia

Detected barriers in adopting laboratory-based active learning pedagogy Too much time needed to learn a new tool for every

class. Tools are complex, only a subset is needed. Too much time to guide disparate design projects. Design tools may need a lot of support. Many issues in

software installation, revision, licensing and conflicts. Facilities for design and prototyping are hard to

acquire & maintain, very little reuse across courses. Long cycle time to acquire parts and fabricate

prototypes.

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Motivation

Define an approach to unifying a learning platform for embedded systems related lab based engineering courses

Target increase efficiency of lab based education

Idea use a single comprehensive platform for the

complete curriculum

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Unified platform approach

Designed to cover all aspects of embedded systems learning

Digital system design

Computer system design, hardware & software

Digital signal processing of audio, video and data signal streams in real-time

Computer networks and interfaces

System integration

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Unified approach targets

1. Provide platform for cross-curriculum educational support in embedded computer engineering

2. Create universal curriculum with lab examples for learning process in the area of embedded computer engineering

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Board architecture (TLL5000 pilot)

Based on FPGA device

A number of peripherals and interfaces

ARM based housekeeping processor

Great expansion capabilities

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

TLL5000

TLL5000 development system provides education of students during entire curriculum in basic electrical and computer engineering studies

Already in educational process on University of Novi Sad,

Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Madison, WI, USA College of Engineering, Needham, MA, USA I.I.I.T.-Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Academic experience

The University of Novi Sad is one of the two leading universities in Serbia

Study group for Computer Engineering and Computer Communication in the Faculty of Technical Sciences practical exercises play an important role with 15

courses having practical exercises as mandatory

Over the years we have used different platforms for different courses

We usually needed 3 or 4 out of 15 laboratory exercise for platform introduction and familiarization with development environment which is a 20-30% overhead on top of class learning

time

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Academic experience

To improve learning efficiencies, it was decided to use the developed platform across all embedded systems related courses.

In current curriculum the design platform is used at Digital Design Principles (2nd year) Computer Architectures (3rd year) and Advanced Chapters in Digital Design (3rd year)

Introduction of the platform required only mild modifications to the covered courses

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Students Perspective

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Additional Information

Ravel, M.; Chang, M.; McDermott, M.; Morrow, M.; Teslic, N.; Katona, M.; Bapat, J., 2009, A Cross-Curriculum Open Design Platform Approach to Electronic and Computing Systems Education, IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, pp.69 – 72

Majstorovic D., Neborovski E., Katona M., 2010, A Cross-Curriculum Embedded Engineering Learning Platform, 33rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO 2010/CE), pp. 283-288

Kastelan I., Katona M., Majstorovic D., Neborovski E., 2011, Students Perspective of the Embedded Engineering Learning Platform - a Case Study in Digital Design, 34th International Convention MIPRO 2011/CE, May 23–27, 2011., Opatija, Croatia, accepted for publication

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

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Conclusion

We presented an approach to unifying a learning platform for lab based courses in engineering related to embedded systems.

It is based on the developed platform designed to cover a complete process of embedded systems learning.

Academic experience justified the approach.

As expected, positive effects were more pronounced in later courses.

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Future work

We plan to introduce a new late undergraduate project based course that will integrate all student knowledge from embedded system design. Hardware-software co-design Emphasis on system integration

Another direction of the future work is to prepare a teaching platform redesign needed to keep up with constant advance in technology.

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

research in service of innovation

Thank you for your attention

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