通过设计和模拟处理器从他们的比特和字节来教授计算机架构
Mustafa Doğan1,2, Kasım Öztoprak3, Mehmet Reşit Tolun4
1ASELSAN Research, Ankara, Turkey.
PeerJ. Computer science
|March 4, 2024
概括
实践项目,比如设计一个16位MIPS类似的处理器,显著提高学生的动力和计算机架构 (Comp-Arch) 课程的知识. 团队合作和同行评审进一步增强学习和设计的视角.
科学领域:
- 计算机工程 计算机工程
- 计算机架构 教育 教育 计算机架构 教育
背景情况:
- 本科计算机架构课程由于软件重点而面临学生兴趣的下降.
- 资源限制和教学优先事项往往导致Comp-Arch课程缺乏实验室组件.
研究的目的:
- 展示实践团队项目如何提高学生的动力和计算机架构知识.
- 探索分阶段项目 (设计,模拟,HDL验证) 在教授计算机系统设计原则方面的有效性.
主要方法:
- 学生团队设计和实施了一个具有特定限制的16位MIPS类处理器.
- 项目涉及三个阶段:处理器设计,桌面模拟器开发和硬件描述语言 (HDL) 验证.
- 学生的反是通过利克特尺度问卷收集的,以评估动机和理解.
主要成果:
- 实践方法显然增加了学生的动力和计算机架构知识.
- 出现了各种各样的处理器设计,突出了指令集复杂性和时钟周期时间之间的权衡.
- 同行评价和演讲增强了学生的知识和设计观点.
结论:
- 基于团队的实践项目对于教授计算机架构和相关课程,如微处理器设计,是非常有效的.
- 整合实际设计和验证阶段可以提高对计算机系统设计的理解.
- 像同行评审这样的协作学习元素对于深化学生的理解和创新至关重要.
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